Walter Scott

“Of all the paths lead to a woman's love, Pity's the straightest.”

“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.”

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive!”

“The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other.”

“One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.”

“The will to do, the soul to dare.”

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

“Look back, and smile on perils past.”

“Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.”

“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.”

“Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.”

“Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.”

“Without courage, there cannot be truth, and without truth, there can be no other virtue.”

“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.”

“Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, 'This is my own, my native land!'”