"A strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy" : Lincoln's early friendships
"He disclosed his whole heart to me" : Lincoln and Joshua F. Speed
"I could read his secrets" : Lincoln and William H. Herndon
"A close, warm, and sincere friendship" : Lincoln and Orville H. Browning
"Beyond the pale of human envy" : Lincoln and William H. Seward
"Abraham rex" : Lincoln and his private secretaries.
