We lost the American colonies, because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy
Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage at all, but a drawback, and would pity so as not to have to envy them.
Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.