Famous quotes containing the words excel and/or township:
“All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out to me on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)