Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.


Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855) - Sir Walter Scott (1838)


Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.