"I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me."
- A 31 year old Abraham Lincoln in a letter to his law partner John T. Stuart, January 23, 1841.
Historians rank Lincoln the best U.S. President here.
An earlier reference to Lincoln here.
