"If you wish to win a man..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.”

“I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.”

“All I have learned, I learned from books.”

“A friend tells you what you want to hear;a best friend tells you the truth.”

“[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)”

“Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! – and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.”

“rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.”

“An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.”

“When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.”