Conscience is justice’s best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and — Mary Wortley Montagu
The pious farmer, who ne’er misses pray’rs, With patience suffers unexpected rain; — Mary Wortley Montagu
As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it. — Mary Wortley Montagu
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes. — Mary Wortley Montagu
I have often observ’d the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company. — Mary Wortley Montagu