It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men expect too much, do too little.
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Men can do all things if they will.