Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.

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

O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!

Wallace Worthington would have reminded Wilbur Larch of someone he might have met at the Channing-Peabodys’, where Dr. Larch went to perform his second abortion – the rich people’s abortion, as Larch thought of it. Wallace Worthington would strike Homer Wells as what a real King of New England should look like.

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.