It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.
No one is worse, for knowing the worst of themselves.
None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.
Only the great can afford to have great defects.
Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.
Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.
Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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