nobility

Not a day passes over this earth but men and women of note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action purely noble anyway. Even the nobility in God's great philosophical intentions is bounded by his vanity.

He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world.

O SON OF SPIRIT!  Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself.  Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man or woman. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

“To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.”

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.