Genius borrows nobly. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a spirit still, and bright
With something of an angel light. [ Wordsworth ]

He is noble who feels and acts nobly. [ Heine ]

A peace is of the nature of a conquest;
For then both parties nobly are subdued.
And neither party loser. [ William Shakespeare ]

Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who does the best his circumstance allows.
Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more. [ Edward Young ]

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. [ Homer ]

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. [ Queen Elizabeth ]

Nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; nor nobly, which is done in pride. [ Ruskin ]

We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of the fair and ruddy countenance of David. [ John Ruskin ]

There is something cordial in a fat man, everybody likes him, and he likes everybody. Food does a fat man good; it clings to him; it fructifies upon him; he swells nobly out, and fills a generous space in life. [ Henry Giles ]

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable. [ La Rochefoucauld ]