Weakness

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution

This is something that I cannot get over, that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams

If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than 10,000 tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised