Mary Todd Lincoln Quotations

I don't think I'm allowed to talk about that. It is definitely not me. The role has been cast.

These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no need for Spiritual Progress. They are too easily forgetting why they were granted this Material Wealth in the first place. Therefore we must stop them from accumulating more Material Gains to Guide them back to the right path.

In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.

Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I watch the waves of the turbulent lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.

My husband is not a Christian but is a religious man, I think.

Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country.

If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

Mr. Lincoln had no hope, and no faith, in the usual acceptation of those words.

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.

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 words half spoken on his tongue, the bullet of the assassin entered the brain, and the soul of the great and good President was carried by the angels to the New Jerusalem above.