“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

“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.”

“And this, too, shall pass away.”

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

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

“Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.”

“It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!”

“I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.”

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

“Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.”

“You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.”

“Nothing will divert me from my purpose.”

“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.” 

“And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in GOD, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.

“All I have learned, I learned from books.”