Lady BlessingtonThinkers

The Friend is the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

Haste is always ungraceful.

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show usthe tombs of our buried hopes.

Satire is given to arise less out of ill nature than out of a desire to display wit.

Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.

Superstition is but the fear of belief.

Superstition is distinguished from religion in this: superstition is but the fear of belief; religion is the confidence.

Talent must be obscure and unostentatious in order to be pardoned.