Famous Quotes from ...
Sir Walter Scott
- He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.... Sir Walter Scott {view}
- Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or declines. When wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home, and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.... Sir Walter Scott {view}
- Death is dreadful, but in the first springtime of youth, to be snatched forcibly from the banquet to which the individual has but just sat down is peculiarly appalling... Sir Walter Scott {view}
- Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.... Sir Walter Scott {view}