"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

"The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves."

"I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

"I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and giver a house."

"Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess."

"Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by."

"Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge."

"Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less."

"A signature always reveals a man's character- and sometimes even his name."