CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1907
_Copyright, 1907,
A. C. McClurg & Co._
_Published October 12, 1907_
_The Lakeside Press_
R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY
CHICAGO
_TO_
_Francis Fisher Browne_
_A FOLLOWER OF LINCOLN
IN WAR AND PEACE
PRINCIPLE AND PRECEPT_
_Let us have faith that right makes might_
_JANUARY_
_The dogmas of the past are inadequate to the stormy present._
_FIRST_
Always do the very best you can.
_SECOND_
If our sense of duty forbids, then let us stand by our sense of duty.
_THIRD_
It's no use to be always looking up these hard spots.
_FOURTH_
All I am in the world, I owe to the opinion of me which the people
express when they call me "Honest Old Abe."
_FIFTH_
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he
can, never suspecting that anybody is hindering him.
_SIXTH_
No one has needed favors more than I.
_SEVENTH_
Whatever is calculated to improve the condition of the honest,
struggling laboring man, I am for that thing.
_EIGHTH_
All we want is time and patience.
_NINTH_