If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.

If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

You can't live your life through your children.