The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.
But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a political system which betrays so many marks of infirmity, and disappoints so many of their flattering hopes. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected, without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.
. . . [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared.
The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
All humour is critical, you know? You make stupid jokes. I mean, stupidity is an infirmity, isn't it?
It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!
This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.
Idleness is more an infirmity of the mind than of the body.
Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.
Worry is the last infirmity of the weak-minded.
Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled. Be not disturbed with my infirmity.
Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To our infirmity.
The development of technology will leave only one problem: the infirmity of human nature.
Although you feel tepid, approach with confidence, for the greater your infirmity the more you stand in need of a physician.
Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.
I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer. God makes use of this rough trial to undeceive us in respect to our courage, to make us feel our weakness, and to keep us in all humility in His hands.
