"A noble soul alone can noble souls..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it”

“For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.”

“No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.”

“To belittle, you have to be little.”

“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”

“An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.”

“Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.”

“We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.”

“The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.”