11 quotes
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Sir Walter Scott (1838)
To the very last, he had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents,—the tools to him that can handle them.
Sir Walter Scott (1838)
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Sir Walter Scott (1838)
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Sir Walter Scott (1838)
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.
Sir Walter Scott (1838)
Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!
Sir Walter Scott (1838)
The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others.
Sir Walter Scott (1838)
All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.
Sir Walter Scott (1838)
It can be said of him [Scott], when he departed he took a man's life along with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of time.
Sir Walter Scott (1838)
Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls.
Sir Walter Scott (1838)
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
Sir Walter Scott (1838)