The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

What’s wrong with people?” she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. “Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way?

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.””And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.””And yours,” he replied...

If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?

Then the voice – which identified itself as the prince of this world, the only being who really knows what happens on Earth – began to show him the people around him on the beach....

Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,Make use of ev’ry friend—and ev’ry foe.