Abraham Lincoln

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.

Abraham Lincoln

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

Abraham Lincoln

Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Abraham Lincoln

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.

Abraham Lincoln

A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Abraham Lincoln

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Abraham Lincoln

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Abraham Lincoln

A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet.

Abraham Lincoln