Fortune's Many Houses Quotes

“Others said--and they meant it as a compliment--- that he was 'utterly unconventional in everything that he did.”
― Simon Welfare, Fortune's Many Houses: A Victorian Visionary, a Noble Scottish Family, and a Lost Inheritance

“I believe that a biography is more effectual than any other kind of literature in turning the mind into a new channel, and causing it to take an interest in the concerns of others rather than its own.
GEORGE HAMILTON-GORDON, 5th EARL of ABERDEEN”
― Simon Welfare, Fortune's Many Houses: A Victorian Visionary, a Noble Scottish Family, and a Lost Inheritance