moral nobility Quotes

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.

I do not believe that these executions made us safer. Certainly I do not believe they made us more noble.

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.

The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.