Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
People fail forward to success.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.