What he is, he is, and I rather think he had done his best about himself. Perhaps, at his age, he ought to have achieved a little more than that. Doubtless, he would himself have said so. But there are quite a lot of people, both older and younger than he, and with far wider opportunities, who are much below him in accomplishment. All this, as we said a moment ago, is pointed up for us by modern psychotherapy.
Valid insights are never altogether new.
And this one isn't. One a pharisee, the other a publican. I lead an upright life. I keep the commandments, pay my bills, give a little to charity, never cheat, never gamble, never curse, never drink. But he stifled it by crying out his virtues that much the louder.