Perfection

Famous quotes containing the word perfection:

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

“There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)