The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.
Walter ScottAdversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.
Walter ScottMethinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.
Walter Scott