Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
Albert Pike
America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
William Bennett
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
Robert Green Ingersoll
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Alexander Pope
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
John Dryden
And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.
Thomas Shadwell
Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
M. Kathleen Casey
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Evelyn Waugh
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
Aristotle
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
Brian Eno
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.
Bruce McCulloch
Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.
Pierre Corneille
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
Louisa May Alcott
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Plato
Give us that grand word "woman" once again, and let's have done with "lady"; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
Theodore White
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mahatma Gandhi
If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
Matthew Simpson
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
Morris West
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