“Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.”
“To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.”
“Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.”
“Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private rants of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia.”
“Nothing great is ever accomplished by following standards.”
“…Not that it was unjust; not that the scales were forced out of balance. Where there had been good, it showed as clearly. Kindnesses, accomplishments, all those were present, too.”