Perfection

No one possesses unalloyed pleasure; there is some anxiety mingled with the joy

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing

practice makes perfect

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment

A good garden may have some weeds

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection

By the work one knows the workman

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others

A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature

Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is