Superficiality

Be to her virtues very kind, be to her faults a little blind.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success

One must not trifle with love

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy, a wise man because he thinks what is easy is difficult

The less men think, the more they talk.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them

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