Perfection

Famous quotes containing the word perfection:

“What journeyings on foot and on horseback through the wilderness, to preach the gospel to these minks and muskrats! who first, no doubt, listened with their red ears out of a natural hospitality and courtesy, and afterward from curiosity or even interest, till at length there “were praying Indians,” and, as the General Court wrote to Cromwell, the “work is brought to this perfection that some of the Indians themselves can pray and prophesy in a comfortable manner.””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I would with such perfection govern, sir,
T’excel the golden age.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The job for us is to develop a way to teach children without demanding instant perfection or without giving in to every whim.”
—Jeannette W. Galambos (20th century)