Titles are marks of honest men, and wise: The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

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.

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince

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!