Solon Springs

Famous quotes containing the words solon and/or springs:

“He will wish and desire to learn as long as he lives, as Solon says.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame ... and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)