“A man's mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.”

— Anthony Trollope, Ayala's Angel (1881), Ch. 41

About Anthony Trollope

1815 – 1882

English novelist, author of the Chronicles of Barsetshire.

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

“Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.”

“No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.”

“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”

“Why, what is weeping and sighing? A judgement. What is misfortune? A judgement.”

“For God made all mankind to be happy, to be serene.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

“Remember that all is opinion.”