Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.