Walter Scott Adversity Quotations

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.

Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.