Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon Born : August 24, 1707 Died : June 17, 1791 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon 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 journey quite the same self that I took. Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon tired journey character 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 what you are, and you do not much mind what people think of you. Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon mind people thinking My work is done; I have nothing left to do but to go to my Father. Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon last-words done father 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, having lost his belief in the existence of God said: "The whole horrible structure, based not on the love of God, but on the fear of hell, tumbled down like a house of cards." Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon house-of-cards uncles school
