If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Walter ScottAffection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.
Walter ScottA good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
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