Mary Wortley Montagu Writing Quotations

I am patriot enough to take pains to bring this usefull invention into fashion in England, and I should not fail to write to some of our Doctors very particularly about it, if I knew anyone of 'em that I thought had Virtue enough to destroy such a considerable branch of Revenue for the good of Mankind, but that Distemper is too beneficial to them not to expose to all their Resentment the hardy wight that should undertake to put an end to it.

My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.

people never write calmly but when they write indifferently.

[On her political writings:] It is, I confess, very possible that these my Labours may only be destined to line Trunks, or preserve roast Meat from too fierce a Fire; yet in that Shape I shall be useful to my Country.

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