Henry Royce Quotes

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.

Honor is decency without vanity.

He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Honor is but an empty bubble.

It is better to be honourable than be honoured.

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.