Noble fathers have noble children.
The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.
Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive smoking?
Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence. " But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.
Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained.
Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made me who I was and made me different from everybody else. I took it with me everywhere, and there was never a moment when I wasn't aware of it. It was like I was totally awake, like I could feel every nerve ending in my body. Sometimes my skin would almost hurt from the force of it, that's how strong it was. Like my whole body was buzzing or something. I felt almost, I don't know, noble, like a medieval knight or something, carrying this secret love around with me.
Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes — ah, there's a case Where the most careful scrutiny is needed To tell a voice that's genuinely good From one that's base but merely has succeeded.
Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.
Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security.
Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.
To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Noble spirits are heterodox.