Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

She left for India in 1881 to join her father. Adela Florence Nicolson (née Cory) (9 April 1865-4 October 1904) was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. Her sisters Annie Sophie Cory and Isabel Cory also pursued writing careers: Annie wrote popular racy novels under the pseudonym "Victoria Cross" while Isabel assisted and then succeeded their father as editor of the Sind Gazette.