Walter Scott Quotes
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!
Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs My blood is liquid flame!
Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
The tear, down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose; When next the summer breeze comes by And waves the bush, the flower is dry.
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes; is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes.
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
God in his goodness sent the grapes To cheer both great and small; Little fools will drink too much And great fools none at all!
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
