WALTER SCOTT

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

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

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

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.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

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

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

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

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

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

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

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