Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonSpring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonThere are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington