With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. – Abraham Lincoln
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. – Abraham Lincoln

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. – Abraham Lincoln
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. – Abraham Lincoln
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. – Abraham Lincoln
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it. – Abraham Lincoln
For one seldom hears a genuine laugh nowadays, and much of the phraseology of laughter is a mere fashion of speech. There are many people whose sides have never ached from over-indulgence in the outward expression of mirth…. With some persons a wheeze or a chuckle is the utmost they can compass. – “Laughter,” in The Spectator for the week ending Saturday, January 19, 1889