Walter Scott

"Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening."

- Walter Scott

"It will, we’ll keep our Christmas merry still."

- Walter Scott

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

- Walter Scott

"If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors."

- Walter Scott

""If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.""

- Walter Scott

"We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt."

- Walter Scott

"Look back, and smile on perils past."

- 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."

- Walter Scott

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

- Walter Scott

"Death —the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."

- Walter Scott

"To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light."

- Walter Scott

"November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear."

- Walter Scott