You too women cast away all the cowards from your embraces they will give you only cowards for children and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

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.

Besides the noble art of getting things done there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Next to the Word of God the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

It seems a fantastic paradox but it is nevertheless a most important truth that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

Make big plans aim high in hope and work remembering that a noble logical diagram once recorded will not die.

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.

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

Work alone is noble.

When a noble life has prepared old age it is not decline that it reveals but the first days of immortality.