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

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

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.