I am the hero of a romance, called "The Fortunes of Nigel." I am the friend of honest…

I am Sir Walter Scott, and have been delineated in my own novel of Quentin Durward, under the name of Quentin Durward, in so far as concerns personal interest, for I am concerned…

I am a friend of the human race. I have no respect of persons, and I know no difference between the high and the low, the rich and the poor, the learned and the ignorant, the good…