Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. – Marguerite Gardiner
Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates. – Marguerite Gardiner

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. – Marguerite Gardiner
Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates. – Marguerite Gardiner
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. – Marguerite Gardiner
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers. – Marguerite Gardiner
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. – Nathaniel Hawthorne