It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.
Mary Wortley MontaguThe most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.
Mary Wortley MontaguThe knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.
Mary Wortley MontaguThere is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
Mary Wortley Montagu