To find the best authors,” he boasted, “is like being able to tell good wine without the labels. - Doris Kearns Goodwin

As he had done so many times before, Lincoln withstood the storm of defeat by replacing anguish over an unchangeable past with hope in an uncharted future.

I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.

Simon Cameron: “I loved my brother, as only the poor and lonely can love those with whom they have toiled and struggled up the rugged hill of life’s success — but he died bravely in the discharge of his duty.