Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
WALTER SCOTTCommend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
WALTER SCOTTRecollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
WALTER SCOTTThe willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
WALTER SCOTTWithout courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
WALTER SCOTTGood Night, Goodnight, Dream.
WALTER SCOTTIf you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
WALTER SCOTTHurry no man’s cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself.
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 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 SCOTTLove rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
WALTER SCOTTCats are a mysterious kind of folk.
WALTER SCOTTHeaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
WALTER SCOTTTo all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
WALTER SCOTTI was born a Scotsman and a bare one. Therefore I was born to fight my way in the world.
WALTER SCOTTSleep in peace, and wake in joy.
WALTER SCOTTSuccess or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
WALTER SCOTT