“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)”

“I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. ”

“I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.”

“None strive to know their proper meritBut strain for wisdom, beauty, spiritAnd lose the praise that is their dueWhen they've the impossible in view”

“Civility costs nothing and buys everything”

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