Marguerite Gardiner

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

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

The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.

I have always had confidence in my own ability.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.