The Tail of the Kite
“Congress, like the poor, is always with us!”—(To General Grant. “Grant’s Memoirs.”)
No Day Without a Line
“I don’t think much of a man not wiser to-day than he was yesterday.”—(A. Lincoln.)
Truth and the People
“The people are always much nearer the truth than politicians suppose.”—(A. Lincoln.)
“CALL ME ‘LINCOLN.’”
Like the Friends, Abraham Lincoln had a dislike for handles to a name, and at the first incurred criticism in fastidious Washington circles by his using the last name and not the Christian one to familiars. To an intimate friend he appealed:
“Now, call me ‘Lincoln,’ and I’ll promise not to tell of the breach of etiquette, if you won’t (Ah, how well he knew the vanity of great men’s Horatios!), and I shall have a resting spell from Mister Lincoln!”