Walter Scott Land Quotations

Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.

Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!

But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like again?

O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood!

All live by seeming. The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming; The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier Will eke with it his service.--All admit it, All practise it; and he who is content With showing what he is, shall have small credit In church, or camp, or state.--So wags the world.

Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?