How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human -- for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.
It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew. . . I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.
Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voicepersonality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling.
Writing is a splendid sorter of. . . feelings, better even than paint.
We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.
A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.
When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.
. . . an ugly, lovely town. . . crawling, sprawling. . . by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
Very well," Magnus said. "Let us pause for a moment and consider—Oh, you have already run off Splendid.
Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire, Poor Robin is yet flowerless; but how gay With his red stalks upon this sunny day!
Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team and business problems dissolve and the impossible is accomplished by their ministrations. . . . Imagination concerning the world's wants and the individual's needs should be the Alpha and Omega of self-education.
There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done.
What a splendid time Woo must have had.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
I like to be surrounded by splendid things.
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject.
My voice, at first rough and breaking on the high notes, warms up into something splendid. A voice that would make the mockingjays fall silent and then tumble over themselves to join in.
To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,We drained a hundred jugs of wine. A splendid night it was. . . . In the clear moonlight we were loath to go to bed,But at last drunkenness overtook us;And we laid ourselves down on the empty mountain,The earth for pillow, and the great heaven for coverlet
The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time, the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells of God.