Famous quotes containing the word noble:
“Soul must learn a love that is
Proper to my breast,
Limbs a love in common
With every noble beast.
If soul may look and body touch
Which is the more blest?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.”
—C.C. (Charles Caleb)
“To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)