Fond man! though all the heroes of your line
Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine
read more

Fond man! though all the heroes of your line
Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine
In proud display; yet take this truth from me--
Virtue alone is true nobility!

There are obligations to nobility.
[Lat., Noblesse oblige.]

There are obligations to nobility.
[Lat., Noblesse oblige.]

Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued read more

Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights. Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher. It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man. Make a career of humanity.Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights.You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Better not to be at all
Than not to be noble.

Better not to be at all
Than not to be noble.

Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.

Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.