There are just two things that can make you famous.. being noble or notorious.

I had forgotten that you are only a common boy. How should you understand reasons of the State? You must learn, child, that what would be wrong for you or for any of the common...

Many pride themselves, staking claim to the noble virtue that is loyalty. However, many resolve to give their allegiance to nothing. How can one demand loyalty, if one stands by nothing, nor commits to the...

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well?

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right –especially when one is right.

No despotism, no privileged monopolies, no police societies, no divine rights of the emirs or feudal landlords or shady priests and sheikhs. All had the same equal footing—the rich and the poor, the noble and...

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Avarice is opposed to nobility.It believes that by robbing many of all they have, that it (greed) is cloaked in the nobility that is the birthmark of the people.

If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.

I know it sounds foolishly old fashioned, but I’m stuck with this idea that there’s something dignified and noble about facing your enemy and looking him in the eye before you thrust a saber in...

We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!

I used to read in books how our fathers persecuted mankind. But I never appreciated it. I did not really appreciate the infamies that have been committed in the name of religion, until I saw...