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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. -- Marcus Aurelius
A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. -- James Boswell
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. -- James Boswell
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. -- Joseph Addison
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used. -- Adam Clarke
The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent with perspicuity, at the same time having regard to appropriateness and harmony of expression. Its greater excellencies are directness, accuracy, appropriateness and perspicuity. -- Joseph P. Bradley
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections -- Joseph Addison
We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity -- Matt Chandler
Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies. -- Samuel Prout
There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education. [Lat., Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a natura sumit, tamen perficienda doctrina est.] -- Quintilian
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader. -- John Dryden

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