There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.

Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.

Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.

Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.