"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." - Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History

"We confess to little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims

"They say, best men are moulded out of faults;
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad."
- SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure

"The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes." - MADAME DE STA, quoted in Samuel Griswold Goodrich's Lives of Celebrated Women

"People mistake their limitations for high standards." - JEAN TOOMER, in Essentials: Definitions and Aphorisms, ed. Rudolph P. Byrd