Did Lincoln say these words:

[Steve]

I can't find the quote, or a variation of it, in the Collected Works. I also can't find the quote attributed to Lincoln prior to an October 1943 Virginia newsaper article. The article itself is basically just a list of aphorisms/quotes, so the quote probably was attributed to Lincoln in an earlier source which I can't find. There doesn't seem to be large scale attributation of the quote to Lincoln until the 1960s.

The nearly 80 year gap between Lincoln's death and the appearance of the quote without any account of when Lincoln said it, makes me feel pretty confident that Lincoln didn't say it.