[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonSome 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 BlessingtonWe are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonSociety punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington