Walter Scott Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

  Walter Scott

  Wisdom, Children, Grace

• The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

  Walter Scott

  Greatness, Path, Virtue

  Walter Scott (1875). “Waverley Novels: The heart of Mid-Lothian”, p.420

• To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

  Walter Scott

  Nature, Ambition, Perfection

• Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor; while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

  Walter Scott

  Real, Greatness, Long

• Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

  Walter Scott

  Courage, Virtue

  John Gibson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott (1853). “Life of Sir Walter Scott, bart”, p.230

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