Walter Scott

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.