I'm On My Way To A Place Where I'd Never Dreamed I'd Be, And That's Perfection.
Works Of Art Can Only Be Produc'd In Perfection Where The Man Is Either In Affluence Or Is Above The Care Of It.
I'm A Perfectionist. I Need To Be Needed. I Need To Do Things For A Man. But I Don't Need To Do Them As Much, These Days.
Poetry Should Be Vital--either Stirring Our Blood By Its Divine Movements Or Snatching Our Breath By Its Divine Perfection. To Do Both Is Supreme Glory, To Do Either Is Enduring Fame.
If A Man Should Happen To Reach Perfection In This World, He Would Have To Die Immediately To Enjoy Himself.
Perfection, N. An Imaginary State Of Quality Distinguished From The Actual By An Element Known As Excellence; An Attribute Of The Critic.
Digestion, N. The Conversion Of Victuals Into Virtues. When The Process Is Imperfect, Vices Are Evolved Instead - A Circumstance From Which That Wicked Writer, Dr. Jeremiah Blenn, Infers That The Ladies Are The Greater Sufferers From Dyspepsia.
Satire, N. An Obsolete Kind Of Literary Composition In Which The Vices And Follies Of The Author's Enemies Were Expounded With Imperfect Tenderness.
If We Believe In A God At All, We Must Surely Ascribe To Him Perfection Of Wisdom And Perfection Of Goodness; We Are Then Forced To Conceive Of Him - However Strange It May Sound To Those Who Believe, Not Only Without Seeing But Also Without Thinking - As Without Will, Because He Must Always Necessarily Pursue The Course Which Is Wisest And Best.
Every Form, Not Being The Whole, Must, Of Necessity, Be Imperfect; Less Than The Whole, It Cannot Be Identical With The Whole, And Being Less Than The Whole And, Therefore, Imperfect By Itself, It Shows Imperfection As Evil, And Only The Totality Of A Universe Can Mirror The Image Of God.
Evil Is Only Imperfection, That Which Is Not Complete, Which Is Becoming, But Has Not Yet Found Its End.
