Anthony Trollope Quotes

Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

Money has no moral opinions.

I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.

I am not a tax fiddler. I am not any kind of tax fiddler, never have been in my life.

A rich man is an honest man--no thanks to him; for he would be a double knave, to cheat mankind when he had no need of it: he has no occasion to press upon his integrity, nor so much as to touch upon the borders of dishonesty.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also.

Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.

If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich.

If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out.

True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.

If instead of looking at income, you look at levels of consumption, if anything that's become more equal. The fraction of families that have a dishwasher, that have a sewing machine, that have a television set. In respect to consumption, it's very hard to avoid the view that people have been getting more equal rather than more unequal.

A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.

I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.

Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all - inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all.

There is but one pursuit in life which it is in the power of all to follow, and of all to attain. It is subject to no disappointments, since he that perseveres, makes every difficulty an advancement, and every contest a victory; and this is the pursuit of virtue.

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody truly knows that but you. But you are what matters most.

The democratic ideal has always been related to a moderate level of inequality. I think one big reason why electoral democracy flourished in 19th century America better than 19th century Europe is because you had more equal distribution of wealth in America.

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

One thing you may be sure of, I was not a party to covering up anything.