Walter Scott

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

Walter Scott

Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.

Walter Scott

Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.

Walter Scott

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

Walter Scott

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Walter Scott

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Walter Scott

For love is heaven and heaven is love.

Walter Scott

Hail to the chief in triumph advances.

Walter Scott

Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye’s bright grace.

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