Want to raise a few eyebrows and launch a load of snickers? Use the word “virtuous” near the company water cooler or at the next meeting of the PTA. Better yet, say you want to teach your children the ...

Look at what colleges state as their aims, and you’ll find a predictable list: Teach students how to think critically and analytically; teach them how to write and calculate; teach them the skills of ...

This Fourth of July, let us turn to a surprising but inspiring role model in the time-honored tradition of self-improvement: Benjamin Franklin. Franklin, a beloved Founding Father, was deeply ...

In "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin," we find a list of thirteen virtues “all that at that time occurr’d to me as necessary or desirable.” These names of virtues, with their precepts, were: 1.

Of all the Founders, Benjamin Franklin is the most compelling to me. Full of wit and wisdom, he has fascinated me since my college days. There are still things about him that astonish me, all these ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis urged Vatican bureaucrats on Monday to show more honesty, humility and sobriety as he issued a Christmas-time “catalog of virtues” for them to follow after having ...