Grand Duke Paul

Famous quotes containing the words grand, duke and/or paul:

    What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
    Edward, Duke of Windsor (1894–1972)

    That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)