A noble deed is a step towards heaven.
Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labor.
The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.
Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close.
Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.
Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.
Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.
The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
Love is not popular. Not noble. . . not love, no reward. Trust love. Is not love. Trust yourself.
The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.
Who is so brave and so noble that they could hurl themselves at infinity without any question, with complete trust and complete certainty that that infinity will destroy them forever?
George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.
It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case
Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene
No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established by conscientious adherence to moral values, not by lofty rhetoric or good intentions.