Quotes by : Richard Brookhiser

Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.

Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.

As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends.

Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.

Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.

He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.

Lincoln loved other people's jokes as much as his own.

She noticed, as an exceptional woman would, that her stepson was exceptional.

Most principles are limp until they are tested.

She became at once more intimate and more exalted.