Abraham

"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go."

"A man's own judgment should be the final appeal in all cases."

"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places."

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

"Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought."

"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can."

"My early history, both before and after I was born, was rather uneventful."

"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who had written some pretty fair stuff."

"I have never been to a place called home, so I make one in my work."

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all."

"When I get ready to do a thing, I just do it."

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

"Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die."

"My father taught me to work, but not to love it."

"I do the very best I know how, the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."

"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes."

"The lessons of the past are guides for the future."

"Labor is prior to and independent of capital."

"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."

"The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."

"Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories."

"It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong."

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

"The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do for themselves."

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk backward."

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present."

"I admire men who have found the time to improve themselves."

"Let the people know the truth and the country is safe."