Whatever you are, be a good one. - Abraham Lincoln

"All I have learned, I learned from books."

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854."

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."