Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonPeople seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonYou were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington