“Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”

“Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”

“Money beats soul every goddamn time.”

“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”

“Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.”

“My times be in thy hand!
Perfect the cup as planned!”

“One is a saint or one is not; every man can choose the career that suits him; but to be saint and sinner at the same time requires singular ingenuity.”

“Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.”

“For nature beats in perfect tune,
And rounds with rhyme her every rune,
Whether she work in land or sea,
Or hide underground her alchemy.
Thou canst not wave thy staff in air,
Or dip thy paddle in the lake,
But it carves the bow of beauty there,
And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake.”

“Love is not to be reason'd down, or lost
In high ambition, and a thirst of greatness;
'Tis second life, it grows into the soul,
Warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.”