Pastoral Resources

As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.