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

In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.

Walter Scott

Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.

Walter Scott

It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.

Walter Scott

It was a reign of minority, when the strongest had the best right, and when acts of usurpation were frequent amongst those who had much power and little conscience.

Walter Scott

Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!

Walter Scott

Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.

Walter Scott

Look at a gown of gold, and you will at least get a sleeve of it.

Walter Scott

Look back, and smile on perils past.

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