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Mary Todd Lincoln Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“...do not allow the baby to walk too soon or she will become bowlegged.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Advice to her daughter-in-law, Mary Harlan Lincoln
Tagged: Care, Child Care, Walking, Teaching
“In grief, words are poor consolation - silence & agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Letter to her sister, Elizabeth Todd Edwards
Tagged: Grief, Silence, Suffering, Pain, Words, Tears
“So you are on guard to-night -- on guard in the White House after helping to murder the President.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Conversation with John F. Parker, the guard who left his post at Ford's Theatre
Tagged: Conspiracy, Murder
“When I can bring myself to realize that he has indeed passed away, my question to myself is, ‘can life be endured?'”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, From letter to to her friend and neighbor Julia Ann Spriggs in Springfield, Ill., grieving over the death of Willie, the third Lincoln son, who died of typhoid resulting from contaminated drinking water from the Potomac river
Tagged: Agony, Loss, Death, Grief
“I have no hope of the re-election of Mr. Lincoln. The canvass is a heated one, the people begin to murmur at the war, and every vile charge is brought against my husband.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Conversation with Elizabeth Keckley in the late summer of 1864
Tagged: Hope, Election, Presidency
“What day is so dark that there is no ray of sunshine to penetrate the gloom.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters
Tagged: Darkness, Sunshine, gloomy
“...my evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season...”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life and Letters
Tagged: procrastination, Waiting, convenience, New Season, Change, Timing
“Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more taste the blessings of freedom, of which the degraded rebels would deprive us.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Letter to James Gordon Bennett
Tagged: Darkness, Justice, Triumph, Freedom, Liberty
“I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln
Tagged: Marriage, Contentment, Hope
“That dreadful house...that dreadful house.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Cried in anguish as she exited the Petersen House and looked at Ford's Theatre on the morning of April 15, 1865
Tagged: dread, Loss, Sadness, Agony
“I seem to be the scape-goat for both North and South.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
Tagged: Scape-goat
“...with trembling anxiety I had been permitted to watch over and minister to my idolized husband, through an illness and receiving his loving farewell words in return, I could have thanked him for his lifelong - almost; devotion to me & mine, and I could have asked forgiveness, for any inadvertent moment of pain, I may have caused him...”
— Mary Todd Lincoln, Letter to Senator Charles Sumner
Tagged: Anxiety, Marriage, Love, Words, Devotion, Gratitude, forgiveness
“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.”
— Mary Todd Lincoln
Tagged: Possesion, Guidance, Spirit, Wealth, material wealth
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