There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.
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.
The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from others.
Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.
Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.
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.