The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
Walter ScottA rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass, Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Walter ScottAlthough too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.
Walter ScottIndependently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater poverty of human invention than we would have expected, there is also a sort of wild fairy interest in them, which makes me think them fully better adapted to awaken the imagination and soften the heart of childhood than the good-boy stories which have been in later years composed for them.
Walter Scott