We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu More Quotes by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu More Quotes From Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 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. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Solitude begets whimsies. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu To always be loved one must ever be agreeable. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
