• I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.

    Mary Wortley Montagu: I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.
    Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.279