Civility costs nothing and buys everything Author: Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Quote More from Mary Wortley Montagu “None strive to know their proper meritBut strain for wisdom, beauty, spiritAnd …” “Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are…” “There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at…” “No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will …”