“Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.”

“If my father's son can become President of these United States, then your father's son can become anything he wishes.”

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” 

“I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.”

“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”

“Believing everyone is dangerous, but believing nobody is more dangerous.”

“you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time”

“Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.”

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

“Too big to cry too young to laugh...”

“Without the assistance of that divine being, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him, who can go with me, remain with you and be everywhere for good let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.”

“No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. ”

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”

“Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.”