Lincoln, answering friends who advised him to seek protection against assassination: "If they kill me the next man will be just as bad for them. In a…

- William Herndon

Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.

- William Herndon

No one of Lincoln's old acquaintances in this city ever heard of his conversion to Christianity by Dr. Smith or anyone else. It was never suggested n…

- William Herndon