There 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 BlessingtonPleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonImagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonWe have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington