“To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.”

“Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”

“Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.”

“This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. (Autobiography, 1771)”

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

“Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.”

“Never take a wife till thou hast a house(and a fire) to put her in.”