I rise again with access of splendour. [ Motto ]

Gashed with honourable scars,
Low in Glory's lap they lie;
Though they fell, they fell like stars,
Streaming splendour through the sky. [ Montgomery ]

He shone with the greater splendour because he was not seen. [ Tac ]

Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendour, can never confer real happiness. [ Scott ]

Extended empire, like expanded gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble splendour. [ Johnson ]

The main enterprise of the world for splendour, for extent, is the upbuilding of a man. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Contrast increases the splendour of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power. [ John Ruskin ]

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given; often it is but a false glare, dazzling the eyes of the vulgar, lending, by casual extrinsic splendour, the brightness and manifold glance of the diamond to pebbles of no value. [ Carlyle ]