Geometry is the noblest branch of physics.
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
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.
Astrology, the noblest of sciences.
MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language.
The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied.
Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.
By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a narrow river, as there is across town, but of one of the noblest rivers in the United States.
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.
It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures—but far and wide.
We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.
The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.
A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.
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.
Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.