Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.
All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.
Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.
Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.
