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

“A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded cannot be safely disregarded.”

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

“In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.”

“Must is the word... You can not fail if you resolutely determine that you will not... Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important that any other thing.”

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

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”

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

“I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.”

“It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!”

“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.” 

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

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

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”