"CALL ME 'LINCOLN.'"
Like the Friends, Abraham Lincoln had a dislike for handles to a name, and at the first incurred criticism in fastidious Washington circles by his using the last name and not the Christian one to familiars. To an intimate friend he appealed:
"Now, call me 'Lincoln,' and I'll promise not to tell of the breach of etiquette, if you won't (Ah, how well he knew the vanity of great men's Horatios!), and I shall have a resting spell from Mister Lincoln!"