Sure 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 BlessingtonSociety punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonA profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance.
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 Blessington