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Here is another look at Lincoln’s intellectual ascendancy, as viewed by his stepbrother and stepmother .
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After Lincoln had become a successful lawyer and politician, Johnston “would tell with much relish how he once thought Abe a fool, because, instead of spending his evenings sporting with the young folks, he seemed to care for nothing but some old musty books.” To Johnston and his contemporaries, such behavior “was clear proof of Abe’s insanity. ‘But now,’ said he, ‘Abe is a great and wise man, and I am a fool still.’” Sarah Bush Lincoln said that “John used to be the smartest when they were little fellows. But Abe passed him. Abe kept getting smarter all the time, and John he just went so far and stopped. I never saw another boy get smarter and smarter like Abe did.”
-- Michael Burlingame, “Abraham Lincoln: A Life”
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After Lincoln had become a successful lawyer and politician, Johnston “would tell with much relish how he once thought Abe a fool, because, instead of spending his evenings sporting with the young folks, he seemed to care for nothing but some old musty books.” To Johnston and his contemporaries, such behavior “was clear proof of Abe’s insanity. ‘But now,’ said he, ‘Abe is a great and wise man, and I am a fool still.’” Sarah Bush Lincoln said that “John used to be the smartest when they were little fellows. But Abe passed him. Abe kept getting smarter all the time, and John he just went so far and stopped. I never saw another boy get smarter and smarter like Abe did.”
-- Michael Burlingame, “Abraham Lincoln: A Life”
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