Mount Pleasant Road

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

    A land of meanness, sophistry and mist.
    Each breeze from foggy mount and marshy plain
    Dilutes with drivel every drizzly brain.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    I am going to my own hearthstone,
    Bosom’d in yon green hills alone—
    A secret nook in a pleasant land,
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.
    David Hume (1711–1776)