Famous quotes containing the words highest and/or mountain:
“The highest good. [summum bonum.]”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“Fogs and clouds which conceal the overshadowing mountains lend the breadth of the plains to mountain vales. Even the small-featured country acquires some grandeur in stormy weather when clouds are seen drifting between the beholder and the neighboring hills.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)