Chide him for faults, and do it reverently,
When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth,
But, read more

Chide him for faults, and do it reverently,
When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth,
But, being moody, give him time and scope,
Till that his passions, like a whale on ground,
Confound themselves with working.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of
others, and to forget his own.
read more

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of
others, and to forget his own.
[Lat., Est proprium stultitiae aliorum vitia cernere, oblivisci
suorum.]

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it:
Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it:
Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I
know most faults.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I
know most faults.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those
who denounce what they do themselves.)
[Lat., read more

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those
who denounce what they do themselves.)
[Lat., Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditone querentes?]

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

He has no fault except that he has no fault.
[Lat., Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.]

He has no fault except that he has no fault.
[Lat., Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.]