Scales Mound is a village and a township in Jo Daviess County, Illinois, in the United States:
- Scales Mound, Illinois
- Scales Mound Township, Jo Daviess County, Illinois
Famous quotes containing the words scales and/or mound:
“Love once
Tipped the scales but now is shadowed, invisible,
Though mysteriously present, around somewhere.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)