Quotes by Abraham Lincoln

"Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure."

"This leads to the further reflection, that no other human occupation opens so wide a field for the profitable and agreeable combination of labor with cultivated thought, as agriculture. I know of nothing so pleasant to the mind, as the discovery of anything which is at once new and valuable -- nothing which so lightens and sweetens toil, as the hopeful pursuit of such discovery. And how vast, and how varied a field is agriculture, for such discovery. The mind, already trained to thought, in the country school, or higher school, cannot fail to find there an exhaustless source of profitable enjoyment."

"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet to be developed."

"You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm."

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law."

"Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy."

"If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height,