Walter Scott
Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSEwas a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 August 1771
ambition destiny self
Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.
inspirational-love love-is heaven
For love is heaven and heaven is love.
law history historical
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
life fate violet
Where shall the lover rest, Whom the fates sever From his true maiden's breast, Parted for ever? Where, through groves deep and high, Sounds the far billow, Where early violets die, Under the willow.
love life heart
True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven. It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
women diaries treasure
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.
eye exercise ideas
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
tree fruit suits
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
judging perfection reason
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
nature ambition perfection
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
historical religion doubt
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.
drinking greatness alcohol
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
lonely loneliness thinking
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
spring autumn tree
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.