There was very much in the whole affair of which he would not be proud as he led his bride to the altar; — but a man does not expect to get four thou… - Anthony Trollope

Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night... Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.

A man has usually to work through much mud before he gets his nugget.

I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he has to tell a story, but because he has a story to tell. The novelist's first novel will generally have sprung from the right cause.