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.”

“All seems gloom and despair.”

“My husband is almost a monomaniac on the subject of honesty.”

“The retrospection is so painful, I have to suppress it.”

“I have been accused of ambition and possessing a great desire to be mistress of the White House.”

“It is a strange and heavy fate, this of mine.”

“When I am taken from this world, I wish to be buried by the side of my dear husband.”

“If I had not felt the pungency of abuse, I should not have cared for the balm of praise.”

“Grief, has made me weary of life.”

“The world is filled with strange vicissitudes.”

“To be President, is to be a crowned king.”

“He is a very plain man in his tastes & would not care 'a fig' for a grand display.”