There is nothing more corrupting nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature than the exercise of unlimited power.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

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.

Music is part of us and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures and things like that.

It's a privilege to serve the poor to be servants of noble Africans but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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