Whoever excels in what we prize,
Appears a hero in our eyes. [ Swift ]

As much as York excels foul Sutton. [ Proverb ]

My mind to me a kingdom is;
Such perfect joy therein I find.
That it excels all other bliss
That God or Nature hath assign'd,
Though much I want that most would have.
Yet still my mind forbids to crave. [ Wm. Byrd ]

Excels in speech, but of a right hand slow to war. [ Virgil ]

In marriage, as in other things, contentment excels wealth. [ Molière ]

By woe the soul to daring action steals; by woe in plaintless patience it excels. [ Savage ]

One writer excels at a plan or a title-page; another works away at the body of the book; and a third is a dab hand at an index. [ Goldsmith ]

He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations. [ La Bruyere ]