As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

There was a touch of prairie about the fellow.
--hans vollman

Yes.
--roger bevins iii

Like stepping into a summer barn late at night.
--hans vollman

Or a musty plains office, where some bright candle still burns.
--roger bevins iii

Vast. Windswept. New. Sad.
--hans vollman

Spacious. Curious. Doom-minded. Ambitious.
--roger bevins iii

Back slightly out.
--hans vollman

Right boot chafing.
--roger bevins iii

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.