I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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.
It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.