When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.

Courtesy and good humor are often found with little real worth.

Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

Much mischief is done in the world with very little interest or design.

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.