Sir Walter Scott Quotes & Quotations

Sir Walter Scott Quotes

» Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

» If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

» 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.

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

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

» One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

» Look back, and smile at perils past.

» Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

» But with morning cool repentance came.

» We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

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