Walter Scott Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.”

“Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.”

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

“O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!”

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

“If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.”

“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.”

“How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.”

“Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.”

“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.”