"Your good mother tells me you are..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.”

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

“I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.”

“The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired.”

“The one common denominator of all successful people is their hunger to push through their fears.”

“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”

“By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.”

“Even though I only have a high-school degree, I'm a professional student.”

“There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.”