“I never tire of reading 

“With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.”

“Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.”

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

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

“And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.”

“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to let him run"

“Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.”

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

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”

“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.”

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”

“Never do anything for anyone who can just as well do it themself”

“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.” 

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