“Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.”

“Everybody likes compliment.

“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”

“Fourscore and seven years ago...”

“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.” 

“Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer”

“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”

“Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.”

“To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all - but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing.”

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

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

“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”