Adjective
The word is derived from lofty
What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. Oliver Herford
Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest human creations are seen to derive from humble origins and functions, what needs revision is not our esteem for these creations but our notion of nobility. Robert Nozick
In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy and custom make their minds The fanes of many a worship, now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nor yet exempt, though ruling them like slaves, From chance, and death, and mutability, The clogs of that which else might oversoar The loftiest star of unascended heaven, Pinnacled dim in the intense inane. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. Theodore Roosevelt
Even the loftiest of mountains begins on the ground. Moroccan Proverb