Walter Scott

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer…

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light…

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by…

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot…

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and…

Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the…

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name…

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their…

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he…

Look back, and smile on perils past…

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on…

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone…

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability…

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many…

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of…