It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war.

-Adams, Charles Francis
  Despatch to Earl Russell during the Civil War, 5 Sep. Quoted in C F  Adams Charles Francis  Adams (1900), ch.17.

He meant to gather for America an undreamed-of collection of art so great and complete that a trip to Europe would be superfluous.

-Saarinen, Aline Bernstein ne¤  e Loucheim
On the philanthropist and collectorJohn Pierpont Morgan. In Antiques, Oct.

Le superflu, chose tre'  s ne¤  cessaire. The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

-Voltaire pseudonym of  Fran c° ois Marie Arouet
  Le Mondain.