excellence Quotes

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

The best is the enemy of the good.