Celebrate Lincoln's birthday with words of wisdom from the 16th president

Sophie Kaplan | USA TODAY

The 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, was born 209 years ago Monday in Hodgenville, Ky.

The Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address are filled with some of Lincoln’s most iconic writings, but he had plenty of other great words of wisdom.

Here are some of them:

"Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong." Oct. 16, 1854 in a speech he gave in Peoria, Ill.

"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.” June 16, 1858, in Springfield, Ill.

"I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.” Feb. 14, 1861, in Pittsburgh

"I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women. But I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war. I will close by saying, God bless the women of America!" March 18, 1864 in Washington, D.C., at a Patent Office Fair

"I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has." Aug. 22, 1864 in an address to the 166th Ohio Regiment