Famous quotes containing the words glorious and/or excess:
“I will redeem all this on Percy’s head,
And in the closing of some glorious day,
Be bold to tell you that I am your son.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,—all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)