Quotes about Nobility

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

If all the other noble qualities of life were placed in the balance against it, loyalty would outweigh them all.

Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.

The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.