I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. – Abraham Lincoln
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. – Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. – Abraham Lincoln
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. – Abraham Lincoln
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship,” Essays, 1841