We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

The tranquility or agitation of our temper does not depend so much on the big things which happen to us in life, as on the pleasant or unpleasant arrangements of the little things which happen daily.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.