We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,
Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him

Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue, Displays distinguished merit, is a noble Of Nature's own creating.