Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.

— Richard Brookhiser

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.

— Richard Brookhiser

Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.

— Richard Brookhiser

Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.

— Richard Brookhiser

Lincoln learned to summon the passions, but he never addressed his audience as sweethearts.

— Richard Brookhiser

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

— Richard Brookhiser

Lincoln Road that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, "takes them unawares." The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty. Lincoln wrote that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, "takes them unawares." The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty.

— Richard Brookhiser

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

— Richard Brookhiser

Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.

— Richard Brookhiser

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

— Richard Brookhiser