Sir Walter Scott

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! 

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

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

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. 

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

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

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

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. 

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

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. 

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

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. 

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! 

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

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

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. 

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.