All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. – Abraham Lincoln
My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. – Abraham Lincoln

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. – Abraham Lincoln
My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. – Abraham Lincoln
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. – Abraham Lincoln
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? – Abraham Lincoln
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires… – Elizabeth Hardwick