Anthony TrollopeThinkers

Accumulation is strength — A small daily task if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.

An Author is someone who gets words wholesale and sells them retail.

Charles Dickens is a writer whose style is impossible to speak in praise, as It jerky, ungrammatical and created by himself in defiance of rule.

Credit (financial) is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away.

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.

Life is so unlike theory.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

Persistence is strength — A small daily task if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.

Self-confidence is important — Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.