Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others retiring.
Mary Wortley MontaguAs I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.
Mary Wortley MontaguMaking verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.
Mary Wortley MontaguPeople wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!
Mary Wortley Montagu