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? Lady Hester Stanhope More Quotes by Lady Hester Stanhope More Quotes From Lady Hester Stanhope My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare. Lady Hester Stanhope stars nature moon ... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies. Lady Hester Stanhope philosophical sublime discovery Education is all paint - it does not alter the nature of the wood that lies under it, it only improves its appearance a little. Why I dislike education so much is, that it makes all people alike, until you have examined into them; and it sometimes is so long before you get to see under the varnish! Lady Hester Stanhope education long lying nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women. Lady Hester Stanhope packs fool conversation Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it. Lady Hester Stanhope vain essence identity
