We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.
Defect Quotes
A small demerit extinguishes a long service.
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people’s characters.
Any one is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.
We can forgive a man the defects of his qualities, if only he has the qualities of his defects.
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever ‘fixed’ at the Philadelphia Convention… To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation to attain the system of constitutional government, and its respect for the individual freedoms and human […]
All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.
