JUNE 5
"Too many take the ready course to deceive themselves; for they look with both eyes on the failings and defects of others, and scarcely give their good qualities half an eye: on the contrary, in themselves they study to the full their own advantages, while their weaknesses and defects (as one says) they skip over, as children do the hard words in their lessons that are troublesome to read; and making this uneven parallel, what wonder if the result be a gross mistake of themselves."
Archbishop Leighton.
"To hide a fault with a lie is to replace a blot by a hole."
"It is a great folly not to part with your own faults, which is possible, but to try instead to escape from other people's faults, which is impossible."
Marcus Aurelius.
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
Carlyle.
JUNE 6