Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.
Love is a command to rise to one's highest potential, the best and noblest vision of ourselves. Love is a reward, the greatest we can earn, granted to us for the moral qualities we have achieved in our lives.
Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.
The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.
Nothing can be truly great which is not right.
It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body.
He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.
Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.
The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.
