Chloe

“God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her,’ and immediately lapsed into silence.”
― Jon Meacham, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

“There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride; disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive and will every now and then peep out and show itself.”
― Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life