Mistakes

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius

To err is human; to forgive, divine

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes

In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?