Gilbert Lake State

Famous quotes containing the words gilbert, lake and/or state:

“I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age,
Photographically lined
On the tablet of my mind,”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

“The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain.”
—Lu Yu (d. 804)

“The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)