Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.
It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
I like to be surrounded by splendid things.
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.
The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.