Walter Scott Mind Quotations

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.

I'll dream no more--by mainly mind Not even in sleep is well resigned. My midnight orisons said o'er, I'll turn to rest and dream no more.

Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.

A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.