The snow is falling here in my little spot in the world. . . a Nor’easter!  Church was cancelled. . . .I had such a wonderfully lazy morning.  Spent some time sitting at my kitchen table with the laptop browsing the worldwideweb, and I found my way to a website about Abraham Lincoln.  Since Abraham Lincoln is my favorite president, born on this same date, I thought I would share some quotes from him today:

“A tendancy to melancholy. . .let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault”

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan-to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations”

“I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot”

“It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations.  They presented him the words:  ‘And this, too, shall pass away’.  How much it expresses!  How chastening in the hour of pride!  How consoling in the depths of affliction!”