The Law is the true embodiment Of everything that's excellent. It has no kind of fault or flaw, And I, my Lords, embody the Law.

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Iolanthe, act1.

Of all God's works, which do this world adorn, There is no one more fair and excellent, Then is mans body both for power and form, Whiles it is kept in sober government.

-Spenser, Edmund
  The Faerie Queen, bk.2, canto 9, stanza1.

She said he was a village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

-Stein, Gertrude
Of Ezra Pound. Quoted in J Hobhouse EveryoneWhoWas Anybody (1975), ch.6.