Time will say nothing but I told you so.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or are not prepared to pay the price asked them. The price varies from individual to individual. Some get things at bargain-sale prices, others only at famine prices. But it is no use grumbling. Whatever price you are asked, you must pay.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.