Boys' and Girls' Biography of Abraham Lincoln

With malice toward none and charity to all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in.

Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Government of the people, for the people and by the people

'All that a man hath will he give for his life.'

"If anyone desires to kill me, I do not suppose any amount of care could prevent it."

There is nothing so kingly as kindness.

He was kind to the poor and thoughtful of their needs.

It pays to be true to principle, no matter how unpopular it may be and though seeming defeat of our ambitions stare us in the face. "This above all things, to thine own self be true,"

He was wont to go off to her grave, and said, "My heart is buried there."

The thought of snow and rain on her grave fills me with indescribable grief