Blessed Quote by John Lancaster Spalding

The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

— Diogenes

“Whatever noblest things the mind received, More and more foreign matter spoils the theme; And when the good of this world is achieved, What’s…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

— Adela Florence Nicolson

“Noble natures cannot dwell in this world,”

— Honoré de Balzac

“Life for most people compels the exercise of the lower gifts and wastes the precious ones, until it forces us to agree that there…

— Virginia Woolf

“associate with the noblest of people you can find; read good books; live with the mighty”

— Thomas Davidson

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

— Honore de Balzac

When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

— Henry David Thoreau

Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their ancestors that…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.

— Epictetus

Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the…

— Plutarch