Famous quotes containing the words excellent and/or master:
“Theseus. The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Hippolyta. It must be your imagination then, and not theirs.
Theseus. If we imagine no worse of them than they of themselves, they may pass for excellent men.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“These temples grew as grows the grass;
Art might obey, but not surpass.
The passive Master lent his hand
To the vast soul that o’er him planned.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)