I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.
I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.
Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
However noble their purpose, we must beware of institutionalized methods that indoctrinate and regiment and fashion every Christian into a common evangelistic mold.
Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?
What has miserable, inefficient Mexico. . . to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?
True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.
What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!
Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.
Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel in being chosen for so noble and sacred a calling, you would feel no hesitation in embracing it.
While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.
The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.
The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.
Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.
While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is "outside," what is "different," what is "not itself"; and this No is its creative deed.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.