Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.
Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.
Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.
Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.
It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.