All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. — Sir Walter Scott
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. — Sir Walter Scott
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. — Sir Walter Scott
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. — Sir Walter Scott
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, he that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. — Sir Walter Scott
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors. — Sir Walter Scott
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once. — Sir Walter Scott
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. — Sir Walter Scott
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
Many miles away there’s a shadow on the door of a cottage on the shore of a dark scottish lake. — Sir Walter Scott
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention… — Sir Walter Scott
Success teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. — Sir Walter Scott
Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. — Sir Walter Scott
Adversity is like the period of the rain … cold, comfortless, unfriendly to man and to animal — Sir Walter Scott
Just at the age ‘twixt boy and youth, when thought is speech, and speech is truth. — 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
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks — Sir Walter Scott
Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. — Sir Walter Scott