Mary Wortley Montagu Giving Quotations

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

A propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe here. The Small Pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it). There is a set of old Women who make it their business to perform the Operation.

forgive what you can't excuse ...

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.