Directory of Mark Twain's maxims, quotations, and various opinions:A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZSIR WALTER SCOTTThen comes Sir Walter Scott with his enchantments, and by his single might checks this wave of progress, and even turns it back; sets the world in love with dreams and phantoms; with decayed and swinish forms of religion; with decayed and degraded systems of governm