Horace Greeley's conversation inevitably becomes a speech.

One does not hold a conversation with him. One holds a symposium. – Elizabeth Drew

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.

Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit.

Whenever I read a Lincoln book, I look to see if there's anything new, and in this case there was.

The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.