I think teaching should be an exalted profession not a picked-on profession.

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

God is each truly and exalted thing therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God by which also God is magnified and exalted.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.