To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.

The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

There's no glory like those who save their country.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.

At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.