Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
Walter ScottTears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
Walter ScottCertainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.
Walter ScottCats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
Walter ScottYou will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.
Walter ScottGuilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor; while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.
Walter Scott