Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years.
Letter to his publisher, John Murray (3 November 1821).
Letter to his publisher, John Murray (3 November 1821).
“There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.”
“The responsibility of writers,” p. 169
On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)
Speech in the House of Representatives (20 June 1848)
1840s
Context: The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.
“To send a political activist to an asylum is more sadistic and evil than killing him.”
In an open letter sent to several newspapers in Norway shortly before the announcement by the second team of court-appointed psychiatrists on their findings of him not having been psychotic when he perpetrated the attacks. Global Post (10 April 2012) http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/120410/norway-killer-anders-behring-breivik-declared-sane
Other
“I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.”
La Bûche [The Log] (December 24, 1849)
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)
