When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an …

Abraham Lincoln
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When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind. ✨ Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). The Lincoln treasury
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