Success in any undertaking comes of patient, unremitting effort. You cannot have it, unless you resolutely concentrate your energies upon your work; and resolutely refuse to be diverted by other subjects, no matter how important or interesting. When something else thrusts itself in, and demands notice, you must be ready to say: “I pass that by. I am going ahead.”
![Pressed Flowers from Lincoln’s Casket Oval engraving announcing the death of President Abraham Lincoln. Decorated with pressed flowers from the President's casket.](https://sewardhouse.org./sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/2010.1.1.jpg?itok=0wMC4_ws)
Pressed Flowers from Lincoln’s Casket
c. 1865
Oval engraving announcing the death of President Abraham Lincoln. Decorated with pressed flowers from the President's casket. Gifted to Seward after Lincoln’s funeral as Seward was unable to join due to injuries he sustained from his carriage accident and assassination attempt in April 1865.