“Don't worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition”

“I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.”

“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”

“Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.”

“If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.”

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

“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”

“People who have no vices, have very few virtues.”

“Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.”

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

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”

“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.” 

“Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.”

“I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.”