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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies -- it is the first law of nature.

We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.

A wife is to thank God her husband hath faults. A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.

The question is not what a man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics.

The person who has many faults is usually the first to criticize others. Put something off for one day, and ten days will pass.

Think about your own faults during the first half of the night, and the faults of others during the second half.

Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor, but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

What makes us see that men know their faults better than we imagine, is that they are never wrong when they speak of their conduct. The same self-love that usually blinds them also lets them see, and gives them such true views as to make them suppress or disguise the smallest thing that might be criticized.