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 believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
Mary Wortley MontaguPeople wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!
Mary Wortley Montagu