Quotes from Walter Scott

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Oh, many a shaft at random sentFinds mark the archer little meant!And many a word at random spokenMay soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken!

Heap on more wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

A Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man's heart through half the year.

Treason seldom dwells with courage.

Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.

Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Is death the last sleep? No it is the last final awakening.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

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.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice

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.

Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.

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.

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact.

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight; To every faithful lover, too, I wish a trusting lady true.