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…

- Mary Todd Lincoln

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

- Mary Todd Lincoln

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

- Mary Todd Lincoln

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life & its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed, are [as] when we are suffering greatly, we are…

- Mary Todd Lincoln

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

- Mary Todd Lincoln

No one is loved as much as you by the people. Don't waste that power.

- Mary Todd Lincoln

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 any Church. He was a…

- Mary Todd Lincoln

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

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 lak…

- Mary Todd Lincoln