"The time comes upon every public man..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.”

“We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued.”

“I never tire of reading Tom Paine.”

“Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.”

“The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.”

“Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.”

“Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.”

“For what but eye and ear silence the mindWith the minute particulars of mankind?”

“The truth hurts, but silence kills.”