“Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.”
“A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults”
“A friend is a person who likes you for what you are, in spite of all your faults, all your shortcomings.”
“A Friend who attends to you only at his spare-time is not worth your prime-time.”
“A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.”
“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”