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.
Mohandas 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