"Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.”

“The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.”

“President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"”

“If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.”

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you're probably watching the wrong channel.”

“The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.”

“Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund”

“The Enemy wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had been done by another. The Enemy wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbour's talents--or in a sunrise, an elephant, or a waterfall.”

“Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”