...He never forgot his mother's teachings, however, and many years later, when in the White House, he said : " All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my sainted mother." The Lincoln family had but one book, a Bible, which Abraham used to read by the light...

...as I have taught you and to love your Heavenly Father. " Many years after, when he became famous, he said: "All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." She was put in a coffin roughly cut out of logs by the same tools that had made their furniture, and...

...dust, and had climbed to life again in forest flowers, he said to a friend, with tears in his eyes: 'All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory!' " She was five feet and five inches high, a slender, a pale, sad, and...

...most deeply and tenderly. Throughout his life he revered her memory, and when he was in his prime he said, " All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my mother." 300. How Lincoln learned to read Good Books. — Young Lincoln attended school only six weeks....

...ever saw, or expect to see." And it was of her that he said in one of his rare bursts of confidence, " All that I am or hope to be I owe to my mother." Neighbors have left many accounts of Abraham's boyhood. These all testify that " he saw hardships,...

...embodiment of all good precepts in the book. Afterward, when he governed thirty million people, he said : " All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. Blessings on her memory !" When he was ten years old, this saintly mother died. For her boy the loss...

...covered by the wreck of the forest and almost hidden, her son was wont to say, with tear-dimmed eyes, ' ' All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." It was the custom of those days and of that country to have a funeral sermon preached by way of memorial,...

...learning. Of her the president, nearly half a century after her death, said to Seward, with tears, — "All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory." Mr. Lincoln himself never manifested much interest in his genealogy....

...sensitive heart and weary hands had crumbled into dust, he said to a friend, with tears in his eyes : " All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother — blessings on her memory ! " Lincoln's first school was taught by a Mr. Riney. He attended this...

...elements of their superiority from their mothers." To this add the words of 'the immortal Lincoln, "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother;" and the tribute of John Quincy Adams, "All that I am my mother made me." Such acknowledgments can be...