Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

With malice toward none, with charity for all... let us strive on to finish the work we are in

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.