Pastoral Resources

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

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.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

And you yourself always be seated at the middle fo the high table that your presence as lord or lady may appear openly to all, and that you may plainly see on either side all the service and all the faults.

All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.