Do noble things, not dream them all day long

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song

To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue.

He did not know that a keeper is only a poacher turned outside in, and a poacher a keeper turned inside out.

This is not a noble cause. This is a nobility cause.