"I am like a man so busy..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.”

“Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.”

“Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.”

“It's a good idea not to major in minor things.”

“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.”

“No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.”

“Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues & silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power & India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air & water would be taxed in India.”

“A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.”

“For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.”