Famous quotes containing the words son and/or excellence:
“A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 10:1.
“Swift blazing flag of the regiment,
Eagle with crest of red and gold,
These men were born to drill and die.
Point for them the virtue of slaughter,
Make plain to them the excellence of killing
And a field where a thousand corpses lie.”
—Stephen Crane (1871–1900)