Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.

In my opinion most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

For if there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

May I say finally that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.