It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion… – Abraham Lincoln
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. – Abraham Lincoln

It is a pleasure to be able to quote lines to fit any occasion… – Abraham Lincoln
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. – Abraham Lincoln
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say. – Abraham Lincoln
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nations wounds. – Abraham Lincoln
Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram. – Joseph Farrell, “About Conversation,” The Lectures of a Certain Professor, 1877