44 Quotes by Sir Walter Scott

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

By my faith,' said Wamba, 'it would seem the Templars love the Jews' inheritance better than they do their company.

And please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all of them good bookkeepers.

His knowledge of books, however superficial, was sufficient to impress upon their ignorance respect for his supposed learning;

Craigengelt, you are either an honest fellow in right good earnest, and I scarce know how to believe that; or you are cleverer than I took you for, and I scarce know how to believe that either.

Oh, many a shaft at random sentFinds mark the archer little meant!And many a word at random spokenMay soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken!

so wondrous wild, the whole might seemthe scenery of a fairy dream