Famous quotes containing the words lincoln and/or corner:
“What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents; and there is no Signor Blitz about it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)