Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
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.
