No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.
Mary Wortley MontaguAs marriage produces children, so children produce care and disputes; and wrangling.
Mary Wortley MontaguThere can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.
Mary Wortley MontaguA propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe here. The Small Pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it). There is a set of old Women who make it their business to perform the Operation.
Mary Wortley Montagu