In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.
Mary Todd LincolnMy evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
Mary Todd LincolnHe (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