Walter Scott (1771-1832) quotes

• A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
• All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
• But with morning cool repentance came.
• Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
• Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
• For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
• It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
• Look back, and smile on perils past.
• Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
• One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
• The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
• To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
• We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
• What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
• When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.