It is possible to so adjust one's self to the practice of nobility that its atmosphere surrounds and colors all our acts. When these acts are habitually and consciously adjusted to noble standards with no thought of the words that might herald them, then nobility becomes the accent of life. At such a degree of evolution one scarcely needs to try to be good any longer—all our deeds are the distinctive expression of nobility.

—'Abdu'l-Bahá, Star of the West 17: 286