“The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upo...”

Walter Scott

“Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.”

Walter Scott

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

Walter Scott

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

Walter Scott

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.”

Walter Scott