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.

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.