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 thats broken! – Walter Scott
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. – Walter Scott
Success – keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep. – 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
Look back, and smile on perils past. – 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
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
Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. – Walter Scott
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. – 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
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. – Walter Scott
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. – Walter Scott
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. – Walter Scott
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. – Walter Scott
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. – Walter Scott
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. – Walter Scott
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. – Walter Scott
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. – Walter Scott
Nothing is more completely the child of Art than a Garden. – Walter Scott
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
