Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again? — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin! — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“... [T]he pure light of chivalry... distinguishes the noble from the base, the gentle knight from the churl and the savage;... rates… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“Female forms of exquisite grace and beauty began to mingle in his mental adventures; nor was he long without looking abroad to… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“Arthur could not but be sensible, that not long since all this would have made him perfectly happy; but the last months… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I will suppose that you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life — that you cannot look… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“When I reflect with what slow and limited supplies the stream of science hath hitherto descended to us, how difficult to be… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is the secret sympathy, The silver link,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“Of all the train, none escaped except Wamba, who showed upon the occasion much more courage than those who pretended to greater sense.” — Walter Scott Copy Share
Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds… — Walter Scott Copy Share
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound… — Walter Scott Copy Share
Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland? — Walter Scott Copy Share
Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids… — Walter Scott Copy Share
“but he had only received that sort of answer usually given by those who are more obstinate in following their own course, than strong… — Walter Scott Copy Share
“Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. ” — Walter Scott Copy Share
Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control. — Walter Scott Copy Share
In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances… — Walter Scott Copy Share
Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits… — Walter Scott Copy Share
“The lovers of the chase say that the hare feels more agony during the pursuit of the greyhounds, than when she is struggling in… — Walter Scott Copy Share
I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd. — Walter Scott Copy Share
![“... [T]he pure light of chivalry... distinguishes the noble from the base, the gentle knight from the churl and the savage;... rates our life far, far beneath the pitch of our honour, raises us victorious over pain, toil, and suffering, and teaches us to fear no evil but disgrace.” quote by Walter Scott](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ab1/walter-scott-775_chivalry_t-he-pure-light-of-chivalry-distinguishe_1557812.png)
