As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.
To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.
Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.
Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves, There is a nobleness of mind that heals Wounds beyond salves.
If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.
Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred--that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.
