“Faults invariably exist among the good, and merit among faults.”

“To have merit to abstain from a fault, is a manner to be guilty.”

“God's merits are so transcendent that it is not surprising his faults should be in reasonable proportion.”

“A Moral Reckoning is, among its other faults, a 352-page exercise in intellectual bad manners. Reading it is like listening for three days to Nikita Khrushchev banging his shoe.”

“The only reason that evil exist is to challenge the good among us to defeated it.”

“If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?”

“Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever.”

“His only fault is that he has no fault.”
Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.

“Thy father's merit sets thee up to view,
And shows thee in the fairest point of light,
To make thy virtues, or thy faults, conspicuous.”

“That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.”