By Abraham Lincoln

• You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time.
• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
• Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
• Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
• I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
• Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
• A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
• A house divided against itself cannot stand.
• As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
• Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow.
• The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
• Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
• You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
• Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
• Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today