“Get down on the floor and play with little kids.” - Anonymous

 From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst 

September 21 

Lincoln loved to tell this story about himself and Jefferson Davis. “’I think Jefferson will succeed,’ said one Quaker woman. ‘Why does thee think so?’ asked the second. ‘Because Jefferson is a praying man.’ ‘And so is Abraham a praying man,’ said the second. ‘Yes,’ said the first, ‘but the Lord will think Abraham is joking.’”