Status Updates From Abraham Lincoln

"The way for a young man to rise," he patiently advised, "is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that any body wishes to hinder him. Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation."

"The true rule, in determining to embrace or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good."

"If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already," he explained. (…) “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing."