Mary Wortley Montagu

“I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.”

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”

“The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.”

“In short I will part with anything for you but you.”

“We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.”

“No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.”