The runic text says that they were the ablest men in Sweden.

Time was when the ablest man would rather kill ten men than feed a thousand children.

The mate had been the ablest man on board, and the captain was now scarcely less helpless than his men.

Will you kindly tell me which surgeon in this town is ablest man?

First you know, you will be ablest man among us.

Wellington held him to be the ablest man in Portugal.

In fact, he was one of the ablest men Augustus had ever known.

That some of my ablest men in the city prefecture were cut down?

Byron referred to him as "the best informed and one of the ablest men" the he knew.

The ablest men married latest, bred least and died soonest.