Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Sir Walter Scott quote 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.
Sir Walter Scott quote To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
Sir Walter Scott quote Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Sir Walter Scott quote We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
Sir Walter Scott quote 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.
Sir Walter Scott quote Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
Sir Walter Scott quote Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Sir Walter Scott quote Biography
Scottish novelist and poet
