"The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there b…"

"We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill."

"Zahlreich sind die Lehrkanzeln, aber selten die weisen und edlen Lehrer. Zahlreich und groß sind die Hörsäle, doch we…"

"An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellenc…"

"All societies need elites. Whether for pilots, brain surgeons, or special forces, at some point an objective standard…"

"How miserable is the condition of men when the better a thing is, the further it recedes from our sight and the less …"

"The excellent man is he who condemns what he finds in his mind without previous effort, and only accepts as worthy of…"

"Warren has a saying, "Intensity is the price of excellence.""

"Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect fig…"

"Instead of supposing that a work of art must be something that all can behold—a poem, a painting, a book, a great bui…"