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 More Quotes by Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon More Quotes From 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 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
