I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on th… - Abraham Lincoln

To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.

if what i feel were equally distributed to the whole human family there would not be one cheerful face on earth

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth.

"I have never united myself to any church because I have found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize their articles of belief and confessions of faith. When any church will inscribe over its altar as the sole qualification for membership the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and gospel: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind, and love thy neighbor as thyself," that church I will join with all my heart."

It reminded him of the man who had a poor old lean, bony, spavined horse, with swelled legs. He was asked what he was going to do with such a miserable beast, the poor creature would die. 'Do?' said he. 'I'm going to fat him up; don't you see that I have got him seal fat as high as the knees?' Well, they've got the Union dissolved up to the ankle, but no farther!

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.