God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
“If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.”
“Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven.”