I asked what pleased him, and he replied, 'I brought suit against -- --, and then hunted him up, told him what I had done, handed him half of the ten dollars, and we went over to the squire's office.

He confessed judgment and paid the bill.' Lincoln added that he didn't see any other way to make things satisfactory for his client as well as the rest of the parties.
"Mr.Lincoln had a heart that was more a woman's than a man's--filled to overflowing with sympathy for those in trouble, and ever ready to relieve them by any means in his power.

He was ever thoughtful of others' comforts, even to the forgetting of himself.

In those early days his face wore a sad look when at rest--a look that made you feel that you would like to take from him a part of his burden.

One who knew him then and had known his career since would be inclined to think that he already felt premonitions of the heavy burdens that his broad shoulders were to bear, and the sorrows that his kind heart would have to endure.
"Mr.Lincoln was fond of playing chess and checkers, and usually acted cautiously upon the defensive until the game had reached a stage where aggressive movements were clearly justified.