Mountain Lake Hamlet

Famous quotes containing the words mountain, lake and/or hamlet:

“The mountain sheep are sweeter,
But the valley sheep are fatter;
We therefore deemed it meeter
To carry off the latter.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)

“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)

“Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death
The memory be green.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)