12 quotes
The best good that you can possibly achieve is not good enough if you have to strain yourself all the time to reach it.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Do the best you can, without straining yourself too much and too continuously, and leave the rest to God.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
The wise and subtle deities permit nothing worthy to be lost.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Personally we look forward to an old age of dissipation and indolence and unreverend disrepute.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Growing and learning and obeying the rules of their elders, or fighting against them, are not easy things to do.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Infancy is not what it is cracked up to be.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
The individual aspiration is always defeated of its perfect fruition and expression, but it is never lost; it passes into the conglomerate being of the race.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
Men could not think of THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE if they did not have it in them ultimately to create THE ALMOST PERFECT STATE.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
No matter how nearly perfect an Almost Perfect State may be, it is not nearly enough perfect unless the individuals who compose it can, somewhere between death and birth, have a perfectly corking time for a few years.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)
We have always been compelled, and we shall be compelled for many years to come, to be prudent, cautious, staid, sober, conservative, industrious, respectful of established institutions, a model citizen.
The Almost Perfect State (1921)