Quotes by : Walter Scott

My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,My gentle guide, in following thee.

Colonel Talbot? he is a very disagreeable person, to be sure. He looks as if he thought no Scottish woman....

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

Cutting honest throats by whispers.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help.....

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

Oh, many a shaft at random sentFinds mark the archer little meant!And many a word at random spokenMay....

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old....