Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

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

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

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.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

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

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

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

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

Whatever you are, be a good one.