Anthony Trollope

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.