It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are more than half prepared to betray the cause, in the vindication of which they have engaged their services.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Men are separated by so many petty things.
There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.