Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.
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 BlessingtonBores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington