Mount Pleasant Road

Famous quotes containing the words mount, pleasant and/or road:

    “My name shall mount upon Eternitie.”
    —Michael Drayton (1563–1631)

    “I believe a man is born first unto himself—for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)