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

- Walter Scott

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

- Walter Scott

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

- Walter Scott

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

- Walter Scott

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

- Walter Scott

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.

- Walter Scott

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

- Walter Scott

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

- Walter Scott

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

- Walter Scott

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

- Walter Scott

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

- Walter Scott

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

- Walter Scott

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

- Walter Scott

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.

- Walter Scott

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

- Walter Scott

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

- Walter Scott

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

- Walter Scott

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

- Walter Scott

Look back, and smile on perils past.

- Walter Scott

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

- Walter Scott