“Lucy Ashton, in short, was involved in those mazes of the imagination which are most dangerous to the young and the sensitive. Time, it is true, absence, change of place and of face, might probably have destroyed the illusion in… — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“There are few men who do not look back in secret to some period of their youth, at which a sincere and early affection… — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“Lucy Ashton, in short, was involved in those mazes of the imagination which are most dangerous to the young and the sensitive. Time, it… — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude more than by mental capacities. — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“He that is without name,without friend,without coin,without country,is still at least a man;and he that has all these is no more” — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“Those who remarked in the countenance of this young hero a dissolute audacity mingled with extreme haughtiness ... could not yet deny to his… — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“The autumn winds rushing Waft the leaves that are searest, But our flower was in flushing, When blighting was nearest. Fleet foot on the… — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“There is more sense in your language, Bucklaw," replied the Master, "than might have been expected from your conduct - it is too true,… — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“It is from the well of St. Dunstan' said he, 'In which betwixt sun and sun, he baptised five hundred heathen Danes and Britons… — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“Sir Richard Glendale lifted the fatal paper, read it, and saying, 'Now all is indeed over,' handed it to Maxwell, who said aloud, 'Black… — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“...[E]xcept the flying fish, there was no race existing on the earth, in the air, or the waters, who were the object of such… — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share Image