“no fault greater than the wish to be getting.”
“If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues”
“What greater evil could you wish a miser than long life?”
“It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.”
“He who shunneth not small faults falleth little by little into greater.”
“Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness.”