Quotes by Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I >>

Life is too short for a long story. >>

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, acc >>

Quotations about Self-improvement

All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the >>

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterd >>

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, >>

Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge... and the longest life is too short.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley