"We are Lincoln men": Abraham Lincoln and his friends

"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.