I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.
Mary Wortley MontaguI have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.
Mary Wortley MontaguI believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.
Mary Wortley Montagu'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
Mary Wortley Montagu