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• Oh, what tangled webs we weave When we first practice to deceive. -- Sir Walter Scott, Marmio
• Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. -- Shakespeare
• When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
  -- Sir Walter Sco...
• If you keep a thing for seven years, you are sure to find a use for it. -- Sir Walter Sco
• Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Sir Walter Scott, London and Westminster Review, 1838...
• It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him.
  No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time....
• All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
  -- Sir Walter Sco...
• Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Sir Walter Scott, London and Westminster Review, 1838...
• To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea
  hat, namely, of la carriere ouverte aux talents,--the tools to him that can handle them....