To always be 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. – Walter Scott
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. – Walter Scott
Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? – Walter Scott
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. – Walter Scott
There was George, throwing away in hideous sloth the inestimable gift of time; his valuable life, every second of which he would have to account for hereafter, passing away from him, unused…. sprawling there, sunk in soul-clogging oblivion. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889