The republic stands for truth and honour. For all that is noblest in our race. By truth and honour, principle and sacrifice alone will Ireland be free.
Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.
The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.
Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor.
Evolutionary psychologists seem to want to unmask our noblest motives as ultimately self-interested - to show that our love for children, compassion for the unfortunate and sense of justice are just tactics in a Darwinian struggle to perpetuate our genes.
I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.
The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.
Geometry is the noblest branch of physics.
Love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best.
The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied.
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage.
Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.
Unsung, the noblest deed will die.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.
The noblest revenge is to forgive
I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.