Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. – James Thurber
One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him. – Lemony Snicket
In Lincolns day a Presidents religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincolns countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs. – David Herbert Donald
