1,780 Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.

I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things.

If you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

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

Whatever you are, be a good one.