Mary Todd Lincoln Quotes

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

— Mary Todd Lincoln

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

— Mary Todd Lincoln

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

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

“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

“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

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

— Mary Todd Lincoln

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

— Mary Todd Lincoln

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

— Mary Todd Lincoln

No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.

— Mary Todd Lincoln

“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 sacrificed for his country, we are left to struggle in a manner ... of life undeserved. Roving Generals have elegant mansions showered upon them, and the American people leave the family of the Martyred President to struggle as best they may! Strange justice this.”

— Mary Todd Lincoln

“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.”

— Mary Todd Lincoln

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

— Mary Todd Lincoln

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

— 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 religious man always, I think, but was not a technical Christian.”

— Mary Todd Lincoln

“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.”

— 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 lake under our windows I sometimes feel I should like to go under them.”

— Mary Todd Lincoln

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

— Mary Todd Lincoln