"It is the function of perfection to..." - Quote by Saint Augustine

“The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to be moved, and such readiness is there that the command is scarce to be distinguished from the obedience. Yet the mind is mind, and the hand is body. The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it obeyeth not. Whence this monstrous thing? and why is it?”

“He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.”

“War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.”

“Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested.”

“But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisitions of art.”

“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.”

“I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.”

“I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.”

“Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.”