Famous quotes containing the words spring, lake and/or heights:
“Honour, thou first didst close
The spring of all delight,
Denying water to the amorous thirst;”
—Torquato Tasso (1544–1595)
“These beginnings of commerce on a lake in the wilderness are very interesting,—these larger white birds that come to keep company with the gulls.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light—I call it a divine capacity for lightness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)