What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Quote by Walter Scott

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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he...

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he...

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter...

'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter...

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble...

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble...

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to...

If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to...

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

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

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures,...

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures,...

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties...

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties...

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused...

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused...

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by...

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by...

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and...

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and...

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps...

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps...

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it...

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it...

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their...

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their...

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.