I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a house in S. Springfield and some wild lands in Iowa. Notwithstanding my great and good husband's life was… — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
He (Abraham Lincoln) said he wanted to visit the Holy Land and see those places hallowed by the footprints of the Saviour. He was saying there was no city he so much desired to see as Jerusalem. And with the… — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country. — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the… — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that. It is definitely not me. The role has been cast. — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no… — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.' — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly… — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.… — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He never joined… — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer. — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths. — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
