Mary Todd Lincoln Inspirational Quotes (6)

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.

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

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.

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

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

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