"Welcome as the flowers in May."
- Walter Scott
"O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain coy and hard to please And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou!"
"To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so."
- Sir Walter Scott
"Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold comfortless unfriendly to man and to animal yet from that season have their birth the flower the fruit the date the rose and the pomegranate."