Quotes by Richard Brookhiser

A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.

The towering genius is not apolitical.

He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.

Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.

To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself.

Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.

Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.

God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.

Lincoln Road that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, takes them unawares. The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty. Lincoln wrote that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, takes them unawares. The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty.

She became at once more intimate and more exalted.

Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.

Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.

One of the highest marks of citizenship is fighting for the common defense.

Any mans life can be seen as a series of engagements with his fathers, Including the surrogates provided by life and literature.

Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.

As with almost every long oration, there were loose ends.

Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.

Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.

It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go.