Famous quotes containing the words allan and/or mountain:
“Thank Heaven! the crisis —
The danger, is past,
And the lingering illness,
Is over at last M,
And the fever called “Living”
Is conquered at last.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)
“A mountain chain determines many things for the statesman and philosopher. The improvements of civilization rather creep along its sides than cross its summit. How often is it a barrier to prejudice and fanaticism!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)