Quotes By Walter Scott

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

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

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!

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.

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