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 ScottHe turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore."
Walter ScottThe man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.
Walter ScottThere are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity; there are those, too, who have heard its "still small voice" amid rural leisure and placid retirement. But perhaps the knowledge which causeth not to err is most frequently impressed upon the mind during the season of affliction.
Walter Scott