Author of quotes: Walter Scott. Page 4

Like really quick and easy move, the rider should be careful not to fall off and reaching the highest prosperity, we must maintain constant vigilance to prevent misfortune.

The fog made the eyes of the people doomed to destruction.
(The fog hides the precipice from those who are destined to fall.)

Though it is harder, but far more honorable to be the first of a hundred people than the first two.

The authority comes from reason, not reason from authority; all authority not recognized by the mind powerless.

To seek justice from biased and angry people is like asking for compassion from a hungry lion. People like a madman who in a fit of rage mercilessly kills his best friend and only waking up, in amazement contemplates and mourns his own cruelty.

No more painful punishment for a man immersed in serious thought than the need to be in the whirlpool of fun and revelry, not so appropriate to his feelings.

People are often blamed on fate that is a direct consequence of their own violent passions.

We're both blind tools of fate, irresistibly pushing us along our destined path, like two ships that carry on the stormy waves and the raging wind pushes them together to common perdition.

The human heart under the influence of misfortunes is as submissive as hard steel under the action of fire.

Who does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for good deeds, but for all the evil which it does not.

The court always takes place very quickly if the judge in advance of the verdict.

It is unwise to look back when the road goes ahead.

Love is unthinkable without hope.

Eastern people are alien to mood swings and they find laughter in almost all cases, unworthy men and policiesthese only women and children.