Anthony Trollope

The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.

Always remember, Mr. Robarts, that when you go into an attorney's office door, you will have to pay for it, first or last.

She understood how much louder a cock can crow in his own farmyard than elsewhere.

"I can never bring myself to believe it, John," said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney, of Silverbridge.

Above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so.

Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House?

Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.

I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.

Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night... Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known …

Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over. Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite …

I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.

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

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 …

It is not true that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet. Were it true, I should call this story "The Great Orley Farm Case." But who would ask for the ninth number of a serial work burthened with so very uncouth an appellation? …

But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?

It is easy to love one's enemy when one is making fine speeches; but so difficult to do so in the actual everyday work of life.

That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or a set of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer teats his sheep and oxen — makes hardly more of herself, …

Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear

I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.