“There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.”

— Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers (1857), Chapter 20, "Mr. Arabin"

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.”

“Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.”

“Learn the art of Silence; the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.”

“Most wretched men are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song.”

“Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.”

“So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.”

“Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.”