- His love for reading. Young Abe begged, borrowed and then devoured a small library of books. Reading by fireplace light in frontier Indiana, each book became a log in the foundation of the schoolhouse of his mind.
- His internal ambition. Lincoln recalled in a brief autobiographical statement, that “there was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education”—including a father who offered no encouragement. So he learned to fuel himself from within.
- His reading taste. He gravitated toward stories of morality, the triumph of good over evil, and proof that ordinary people could achieve extraordinary things. His reading edified and shaped him.
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Elizabeth Beeli 