If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

—Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

—Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

—Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

—Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others and judging their lives as either black or white, good or bad. We all live our lives in shades of gray.

—Shannon L. Alder

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.

—Laozi

Never find fault with the absent.

—Alexander Pope

All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent.

—Elinor Goulding Smith