My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings […]
There seemed to be deathlike stillness about me. Then I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. I thought I left my bed and wandered downstairs. There the silence was broken by the same pitiful sobbing, but the mourners were invisible. I went from room to room; no living person was […]
If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.
A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he came down to some more modest position. Finally, he asked to be made a tidewaiter. When he saw he could not get that, he asked me for an old pair of trousers. It […]
It is said that an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words “and this, too, shall pass away.” How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour […]
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.
I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
