While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
Mary Wortley MontaguMy dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.
Mary Wortley MontaguNature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
Mary Wortley Montagu