nobility Quotes

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.

Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.