“The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid.”

“Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

“The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.”

“Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature, opposition to it in his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism, and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.”

“If friendship is your weakest point, then you are the strongest person in the world.”

“On peut tromper une partie du peuple tout le temps et tout le peuple une partie du temps, mais on ne peut pas tromper tout le peuple tout le temps.”

“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”

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

“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”

“Fourscore 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.”

“I shall adopt new Muse as fast as they appear to be true Muse.”

“My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

“If Friendship is your weakest point, you are the strongest person in the world.”

“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.”