Character Quote by Thomas Carlyle

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Virtue is venerable as nothing else in this world is.”

— John Steinbeck

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

— Mason Cooley

“(...) the historian whose pen traces these words - trusting that HE KNOWS HIS PLACE, and that he entertains a becoming recerence for those…

— Charles Dickens

The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“But there is one thing which these so clear, these so venerable teachings do not contain: they do not contain the mystery of what…

— Hermann Hesse

“The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.”

— Epicurus

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

— William Shakespeare

“Even in adversity, nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and…

— Aristotle

“In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a people among whom…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal way and…

— Dorotheus of Gaza

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt,…

— Adam Smith