Anthony Trollope

"Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed."

"There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, — and always to plead it successfully."

"You can never teach them, except by the slow lesson of habit."

"As will so often be the case when a men has a pen in his hand. It is like a club or sledge-hammer, — in using which, either for defence or attack, a man can hardly measure the strength of the blows he gives."

"There is such a difference between life and theory."

"There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily."

"Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early."

"He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so."

"The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of _____; let us call it Barchester. Were we to name Wells or Salisbury, Exeter, Hereford, or Gloucester, it might be presumed that something personal was intended; and as this tale will refer mainly to the cathedral dignitaries of the town in question, we are anxious that no personality may be suspected."

"The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live."

"The tenth Muse who now governs the periodical press."

"She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration."