The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
Ovid

And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.
Glenn Beck

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
Samuel Smiles

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
John Quincy Adams

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
W. Somerset Maugham

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Thomas Babington

Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.
Kofi Annan

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
Horace

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
Edith Stein

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
Billy Sunday

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
Louis Pasteur

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
David Herbert Lawrence

No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling.
Allen West

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
John Cage

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
John Cage

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Henry B. Adams

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Baruch Spinoza

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.
James Nasmyth