“The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.”

“I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.”

“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.” 

“Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.”

“I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things.”

“The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature

“The facts with which I shall deal this evening are mainly old and familiar; nor is there anything new in the general use I shall make of them. If there shall be any novelty, it will be in the mode of presenting the facts, and the inferences and observations following that presentation.

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

“I shall adopt new Muse as fast as they appear to be true Muse.”

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to  succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”

“My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.”

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

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

“A drop of honey gathers more flies than a gallon of gall.”