Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House? — Anthony Trollope

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so.

Above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.