It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
Walter ScottRespect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.
Walter ScottHe is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Walter ScottBesides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination in early youth. She was too frank, too confiding, too kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but destructive of the marvellous, with which a youth of imagination delights to dress the empress of his affections.
Walter Scott