Famous quotes containing the words place and/or kings:
“Who knows but this hill may one day be a Helvellyn, or even a Parnassus, and the Muses haunt here, and other Homers frequent the neighboring plains?... It was a place where gods might wander, so solemn and solitary, and removed from all contagion with the plain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)