Quotes by : Richard Brookhiser

Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.

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

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.

To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself.

It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go.

The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.

She became at once more intimate and more exalted.

Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.