Quotes by Sir Walter Scott

“I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through”

“He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round”

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

“The consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor”

“The will to do, the soul to dare.”

“I am enamoured of my journal”

“Vengeance, deep-brooding oer the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow”

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

“Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.”

“It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent”

“Look back, and smile on perils past.”

“One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum”

“When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.”

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

“Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.”

“What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.”

“Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion”

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

“He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.”

“Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, Well keep our Christmas merry still.”