1st Baron Mount Temple

Famous quotes containing the words baron, mount and/or temple:

    The inevitability of gradualness cannot fail to be appreciated.
    Sidney Webb (Lord Passfield, Or Baron Pass (1859–1947)

    On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)