| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 36415 |
| QUOTATION: | I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), U.S. president. Speech, February 22, 1842, to the Washingtonian Temperance Society, Springfield, Illinois. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 1, ed. Roy P. Basler (1953). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Lincoln Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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