"Character is like a tree and reputation..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.”

“Twenty-two years ago Judge [then-Senator Stephen] Douglas and I first became acquainted. We were both young then; he a trifle younger than I. Even then, we were both ambitious; I, perhaps, quite as much so as he. With me, the race of ambition has been a failure--a flat failure; with him it has been one of splendid success.”

“Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.”

“How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!”

“To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.”

“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”

“One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.”

“Your reputation is none of your business.”

“For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.”