“Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.”
“If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.”
“The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.”
“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.”
“Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.”
“There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.”
“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.”
“Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.”
“They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a little bad. [Measure For Measure]”
“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 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.”
“A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.”
“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.”
“Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.”