Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side his nobler instincts and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.

There are certain pursuits which if not wholly poetic and true do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees for instance.

To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.