Mary Todd Lincoln

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

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

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

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

“All seems gloom and despair.”

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

“Grief, has made me weary of life.”

“The world is filled with strange vicissitudes.”

“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.”

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

“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.”