nobility, n.All

Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us (by obligations, not by rights). To live as one likes is plebeian... the noble man aspires to order and law.

Nobility is being superior to your previous self.

The Nobility is that strata of society which consumes without producing.

Nobility is an inadvertent effect of one who has grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

Penguins are noble creatures, literally --- Norway once knighted one.

Nobility is one who has no ability.

Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.

Nobility is only possible to achieve when no one is looking.

Nobility's original class was always the barbarian caste. Their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.