Lincoln Family

Famous quotes containing the words lincoln and/or family:

    Although what I am now to say is to be, in form, a reprimand, it is not intended to add a pang to what you have already suffered.
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest—usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation—and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.
    —J.M. (John Millington)