Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

- Walter Scott

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

- Walter Scott

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

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

- Walter Scott

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

- Walter Scott

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

- Walter Scott

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

- Walter Scott

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

- Walter Scott

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

- Walter Scott

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

- Walter Scott