Benjamin Franklin Faults Quotations

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

I wish to live without committing any fault at any time.

One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults.

Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one.

Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.

I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

What pains our Justice takes his faults to hide, With half that pains sure he might cure 'em quite

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.