Famous quotes containing the words lake and/or nation:
“What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone! None of your half-mile swamps, none of your mile-wide woods merely, as on the skirts of our towns, without hotels, only a dark mountain or a lake for guide-board and station, over ground much of it impassable in summer!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)