Abraham Lincoln Quotes - Page 2

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

A house divided cannot stand.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

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

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.

I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No - when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

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

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
-as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

All I have learned, I learned from books.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey
upon you, and in the end you
are sure to succeed.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

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

The only way to predict the future is to create it.