Sir Walter Scott Quotes

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

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.

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

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! - Marmion.

Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round