Since those days, Florence Nightingale has done many kindly and noble deeds.

The language should fit the subject; beautiful thoughts need beauty of expression, high and noble deeds must be told in noble language.

I hope your hearts will never get to be so dry and hard that they will not beat responsive to brave and noble deeds, even if they are not exactly prudent.

From one who rejoices in a brave and noble deed.

For if Horatius, Mucius, Curtius, Regulus, the Decii wished to encounter danger and death with the object of seeming to have done a great and noble deed, why should I not even more desire to do this as a result of which I shall while alive excel both them and all the rest of mankind in glory?

And noble deeds that youth had done, And won a glorious name; Which future ages would enroll Upon the book of fame.

This gave merit to credulity, and led pious men to extol it as a brave and noble deed, when any one overpowered the scruples of good sense, and scolded them down as the wisdom of this world, which is hostile to God.

That one good and noble deed shall be the proof that you are capable of better things.

I have a suggestion to make to the descendants of these noble pioneers, that to perpetuate the memory of their fathers, and do reverence to their good and noble deeds in the early history of this grand State, there should be erected upon the highest mountain top a memorial building wherein may be inscribed the names and histories of the brave pioneers, so they may never be blotted out.