While your rheumatism stays with you I naturally feel anxious to hear often. If you should be so unlucky as to become a cripple, it will certainly be bad, but you may be sure I shall be still a loving husband, and we shall make the best of it together.
Letter to Lucy Webb Hayes (12 March 1865) - Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)