“Lord, give me steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.” - Anonymous

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

September 5

The political climate of the 1850's and 1860's was rife with the scurrilous. According to the newspapers of the day, Lincoln was 'a third-rate lawyer'; he lived 'in low Hoosier style'; he 'could not speak good grammar'; he delivered 'coarse and clumsy jokes'; he was descended from 'an African gorilla.'

'Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace like a clock in a thunderstorm.'

- Robert Louis Stevenson