She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard... →
Elizabeth Montagu
The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk -... →
Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.