A man's errors are what make him amiable.
Source: In Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, ed. Jason Shulman & Isaac Asimov, 1988.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (Aug 28 1749-1832), German poet, dramatist; He was the greatest figure of the German Romantic period, e.g., Faust, 1808.