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.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?