Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonOur weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonPeople seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington