Anthony Trollope Quotes on Psychology
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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A man's mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.
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But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?
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There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart,- and always to plead it successfully.
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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.