If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once. Walter Scott Read Quote
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Walter Scott Read Quote
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. Walter Scott Read 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. Walter Scott Read Quote
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. Walter Scott Read Quote
Many miles away there’s a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake. Walter Scott Read Quote
A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. Walter Scott Read Quote
