I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

A man without one redeeming vice.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

I never trust a man who doesn't have enemies.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him.

None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

People without any vices rarely have any virtues either.

I shall never again admire a merely brave man.

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

He has no credibility left.