“If I do good, I feel good...If I do bad, I feel bad”

“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”

“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”

“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

“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.” 

“Love is the chain whereby to lock a child to its parent.”

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”

“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”

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

“There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.”

“It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.”

“I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.”

“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. ”

“If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution; certainly would if such right were a vital one. But such is not our case.”