Bitter Gold

Famous quotes containing the words bitter and/or gold:

“Unknown love
Is as bitter a thing
As the maiden-lily”
—Lady Otomo No Sakonoe (fl. 8th century)

“After reading Howitt’s account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some gold daily, though it were only the finest particles,—why I might not sink a shaft down to the gold within me, and work that mine.... At any rate, I might pursue some path, however solitary and narrow and crooked, in which I could walk with love and reverence.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)