How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation!

- Mary Collyer

What the eye does not see, the heart does not rue

- Mary Collyer

I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe, I must be less communicative, in…

- Mary Collyer

I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this genteel accomplishment …

- Mary Collyer

swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb.

- Mary Collyer

The most savage and voracious animal never kills to increase his wealth, or open a way to grandeur. It slays to satisfy his hunger, or in a natural d…

- Mary Collyer

Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions.

- Mary Collyer

prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent.

- Mary Collyer

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

- Mary Collyer