There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
— Anthony Trollope
There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
Life is so unlike theory.
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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.
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
