“Man is never perfect, nor contented.”

“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”

“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.”

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”

“Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”

“There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.”

“But there we are. Some things never do make perfect sense. There must be some explanation, and it is perhaps a little like the Doctrine of the Perfect Partner. We must be content to know that she exists, somewhere in the world, and try not to care overmuch that we will probably never meet her.”

“I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.”

“The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is; the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't; the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.”

“The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.”