I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully.

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.

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.

If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

I do not believe the Union will dissolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the other.

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.