Nicole

“In a passage directed at abolitionists as well as temperance reformers, he had observed that it was the nature of man, when told that he should be “shunned and despised,” and condemned as the author “of all the vice and misery and crime in the land,” to “retreat within himself, close all the avenues to his head and his heart.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly,” Leo Tolstoy wrote, “can also suffer great sorrow; but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heal them.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln