“The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.”

“They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.”

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

“The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.”

“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”

“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”