He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
WALTER SCOTTHe that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
WALTER SCOTTIt is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.
WALTER SCOTTNothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
WALTER SCOTTSilence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
WALTER SCOTTI cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me.
WALTER SCOTTDo not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
WALTER SCOTTWhere is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?
WALTER SCOTTReal valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
WALTER SCOTTWhat a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people’s minds.
WALTER SCOTTIs death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.
WALTER SCOTTCome fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
WALTER SCOTTCats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
WALTER SCOTTThe misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?
WALTER SCOTTWe build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
WALTER SCOTTAs long as the Fates permit, live cheerfully.
WALTER SCOTTBlessed be his name, who hath appointed the quiet night to follow the busy day, and the calm sleep to refresh the wearied limbs and to compose the troubled spirit.
WALTER SCOTT