“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
“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
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude more than by mental capacities. — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“...[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
“Once upon a time there lived an old woman, called Janet Gellatley, who was suspected to be a witch, on the infallible grounds that… — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share
“Craigengelt, you are either an honest fellow in right good earnest, and I scarce know how to believe that; or you are cleverer than… — Sir Walter Scott Copy Share
