The building fitted accurately to answer its end will turn out to be admirable. [ Moller ]

He that revels in a well-chosen library has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor. [ William Godwin ]

That which astonishes, astonishes once; but whatever is admirable becomes more and more admired. [ Joubert ]

What is admirable justly calls forth our admiration, yet a woman seems to be no true woman who calls forth nothing else. [ Platen ]

Humor is one of the elements of genius - admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius. [ Goethe ]

Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. [ Seneca ]

If there be one thing on earth which is truly admirable, it is to see God's wisdom blessing an inferiority of natural powers, where they have been honestly, truly, and zealously cultivated. [ Dr. Arnold ]

What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice. [ Ruskin ]