The following strengths, if not properly maintained, can become weaknesses:

• A person who calls himself frank and candid can find himself becoming tactless and cruel.
• A person who prides himself on being tactful can find eventually that he has become evasive and deceitful.
• A person with firm convictions can become pigheaded.
• A person who is inclined to be temperate and judicious can sometimes turn into someone with weak convictions and banked fires of resolution . . .
• Loyalty can lead to fanaticism.
• Caution can become timidity.
• Freedom can become license.
• Confidence can become arrogance.
• Humility can become servility.