“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”

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

“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”

“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.” 

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”

“Judge not, that ye be not judged.”

“Love is the chain whereby to lock a child to its parent.”

“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”

“Gold is good in it's place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.”

“The inclination to share thoughts with one another is probably an original impulse of our nature.If in pain I wish to let you know it,and ask your sympathy and assistance;and my pleasurable emotions also,I wish to communicate to,and share with you.”

“Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.”

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”

“There can be glory in failure and despair in success.”

“Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.”

“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”