Pastoral Resources

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.

Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.