More From Walter Scott
- "There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine."
- "To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light."
- "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."
More In Success
- "We’re born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure."― Whoopi Goldberg
- "I’ve stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance."― Robert Plant
- "Every book I’ve written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want."― Yann Martel