Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its remonstrances, the most powerful submit to its reproof, and the angry endure its upbraidings. While conscience is our friend all is peace; but if once offended farewell the tranquil mind.
Mary Wortley MontaguCopiousness of words, however ranged, is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings.
Mary Wortley MontaguTime 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 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