Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonTo amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonFlowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington