Quotes by Walter Scott

“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 that's broken!”

“It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.”

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

“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.”

“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 t...”

“He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.”

“A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.”

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

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

“Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.”

“Look back, and smile on perils past.”

“Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.”

“Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.”

“When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.”

“Meantime the clang of the bows and the shouts of the combatants mixed fearfully with the sound of the trumpets, and drowned the groans of those who fell, and lay rolling defenceless beneath the fee...”

“Oh, many a shaft at random sentFinds mark the archer little meant!And many a word at random spokenMay soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken!”

“But search the land of living men Where wilt thou find their like again.”

“Adversity is to me at least a tonic and a bracer.”

“He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.”

“Cutting honest throats by whispers.”