It is in our faults and failings not in our virtues that we touch each other and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

We are all full of weakness and errors let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

History is little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind witness what's going on in the world in this moment the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

My dreams are all follies.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad and by laughing at the architecture.