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.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.