I am often tired of myself, and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality, and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from a…

- Selina Hastings, Countess Of Huntingdon

Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, h…

- Selina Hastings, Countess Of Huntingdon

My work is done; I have nothing left to do but to go to my Father.

- Selina Hastings, Countess Of Huntingdon

Middle-age has its compensations. You feel no need to do what you do not like. You are no longer ashamed of yourself; you are reconciled to being wha…

- Selina Hastings, Countess Of Huntingdon