Abraham Lincoln

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

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

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.