Elevation Quotes

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?

Sometimes what appears to be a setback is God's mode of elevation.

The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace.