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 SCOTTCredit 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 SCOTTCats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
WALTER SCOTTCommend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
WALTER SCOTTHe that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.
WALTER SCOTTDo not Christians and Heathens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?
WALTER SCOTTNovember’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.
WALTER SCOTTHope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
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 SCOTTWhen true friends meet in adverse hour; ‘Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
WALTER SCOTTThe half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
WALTER SCOTTDiscretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
WALTER SCOTTGood Night, Goodnight, Dream.
WALTER SCOTTMany a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.
WALTER SCOTTNothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.
WALTER SCOTTHeaven know its time; the bullet has its billet.
WALTER SCOTTA sinful heart makes feeble hand.
WALTER SCOTT