Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1251 |
| AUTHOR: | James Russell Lowell (1819–91) |
| QUOTATION: | As one lamp lights another, nor grows less, So nobleness enkindleth nobleness. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Inscription above the statue of Art, Main Reading Room, Library of Congress. The inscription was selected by Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard. |
| SUBJECTS: | Nobility |