Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

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

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.