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• A mass enormous! which in modern days No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xx, Line 337...
• Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle i, Line 139...
• And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book i, Line 771...
• Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.
  -- John Gillespie Magee...
• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Mountains standing close together: The image of Keeping Still.
  Thus the superior man Does not permit his thoughts To go beyond his situation....
• In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
  Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes: Men would be angels, angels would be gods....
• An ancient buddha said, Mountains are mountains; waters are waters.
  These words do not mean mountains are mountains; they mean mountains are mountains. -- Doge...
• Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures.
  War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble...