Sir Walter Scott

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled
with noble risks, is worth whole years read more

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled
with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry
decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters
through a marsh, without either honour or observation.

And honeysuckle loved to crawl
Up the low crag and ruin'd wall.

And honeysuckle loved to crawl
Up the low crag and ruin'd wall.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested
destroys its chance of revenge.

Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested
destroys its chance of revenge.