34 Quotes by Richard Brookhiser

He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.

She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.

Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.

The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.

Since we never get everything we want or need from our families, we look for sufficiency in surrogates.

The beaten path can be a busy and distracting place.

When Marshall died in 1835, he and the Court he led had rebuked two presidents, Congress, and a dozen states and laid down principles of law and politics that still apply.