When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!
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 BlessingtonThe most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonA man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause of calling their possession of them into question.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonWe have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonSure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington