We have scarcely any faults which are not more pardonable than the shifts we make to hide them.

The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?

Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.

Whoe'er he be That tells my faults, I hate him mortally.

Whoever is aware of his own failing will not find fault with the failings of other men.

Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.

They say best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.

More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.