'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul; I think the Romans call it stoicism.

-Addison,Joseph
  Cato, act1, sc.4, l.82^3.

   Un homme n'a jamais pu e¤  lever sa ma|"tresse jusqu'a'   lui; mais une femme place toujours son amant aussi haut qu'elle. A man can never elevate his mistress to his rank, but a woman can always place her lover as high as she.

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
  Physiologie du mariage.

Is there for honest Poverty That hings his head, and a'that; The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a'that! For a'that, and a'that, Our toils obscure, and a'that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a'that.

-Burns, Robert
  'For a' that and a' that', stanza1.

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which ourdull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive formsöthis knowledge, this feeling, isatthe centerof true religiousness.In thissense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.

-Einstein, Albert
Quoted in Philipp Frank Einstein: HisLife and Times (1947), ch.12, section 5.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  'The Bravery of the English Common Soldier', in The British Magazine,  Jan.

I keep no rank nor station. Cured, I am frizzled, stale and small.

-Lowell, RobertTraill Spence,Jr
  'Home  After Three Months  Away'.

Das Seelische [ist] immer das Prim a« re und eigentlich Motivierende; die politischeAktion ist zweiterOrdnung, Reflex, Ausdruck, Instrument. The mental state is always the primaryand ultimately the motivating state.Political actionis ofsecond rank, reflex, expression, instrument.

-Mann,Thomas
  Doktor Faustus.

It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because he has deserved well of his parish, as for a man in higher rank to take his pension from his country, because he has deserved well of his country.

-Ruskin,John
  Unto this Last, preface.