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While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.

Better not be at all than not be noble.

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.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.