The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of h…

- Walter Besant

There is a book into which some of us are happily led to look, and to look again, and never tire of looking. It is the Book of Man. You may open that…

- Walter Besant

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

- Walter Besant

Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.

- Walter Besant

I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.

- Walter Besant