Marguerite Gardiner

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious…

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers…

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates…

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus…

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little…