I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
I think women are excellent social critics.
I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; a villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these excellent qualities, and her home of its early happiness. conscience cannot stand much violence.