44 Quotes by Sir Walter Scott

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill;But let it whistle as it will,We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

November’s sky is chill and drear, / November’s leaf is red and sear.

For ne'er was flattery lost on poet's ear; / A simple race! they waste their toil / For the vain tribute of a smile.

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it—this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.