The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.
Mary Wortley MontaguI have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.
Mary Wortley MontaguMy dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.
Mary Wortley MontaguBe plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
Mary Wortley Montagu