The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

“The Commander stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerity, benevolence, courage, and strictness.”

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with music?

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.