One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum. - Sir Walter Scott. View more images...

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation. - Sir Walter Scott. View more images...

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. - Sir Walter Scott. View more images...

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. - Sir Walter Scott. View more images...

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong. - Sir Walter Scott. View more images...

The chain of friendship, however bright, does not stand the attrition of constant close contact. - Sir Walter Scott. View more images...