Ruth Painter Randall > Quotes

“How miserably things seem to be arranged in this world,” he wrote. “If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.”
― Ruth Painter Randall, Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage

“The man who firmly believes he can perceive truth by his own power of intuition is apt to end by believing what he wants to believe, and Herndon wanted to believe the worst about Mrs. Lincoln.”
― Ruth Painter Randall, Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage

“had plainly given her “that piece of mind” which “never impoverishes the giver nor enriches the receiver.”
― Ruth Painter Randall, Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage

“charity”
― Ruth Painter Randall, Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage

“us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”
― Ruth Painter Randall, Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage