Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
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 BlessingtonTo amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington