All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

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

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

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

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

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

I must run the machine as I find it.