It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting.
We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.
I am very little of a traveler.
Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.
I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.
We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.
Much is published, but little printed.
That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned.
As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey our finest instincts. But we should be fastidious to the extreme of sanity, disregarding the gibes of those who are more unfortunate than ourselves.
It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.
Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?
On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up his head in their company.
The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones.
There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Let your walks now be a little more adventurous.
To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.
A little thought is sexton to all the world.
What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.
The rule is to carry as little as possible.
We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day.
He who owns little is little owned.
One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.
They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little.