Lady Hester Stanhope Quotes
My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.
nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.
... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.
Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.
It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?
