4,467 Quotes About Littles

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little.

He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model and limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.

There was a time when I believed in the persuadability of man, and had the mania of man-mending. Experience has taught me better. The ablest physician can do little in the great lazar-house of society. He acts the wisest part who retires from the contagion.

Little, indeed, does it concern us in this our mortal stage, to inquire whence the spirit hath come; but of what infinite concern is the consideration whither it is going. Surely such consideration demands the study of a life.

I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.

I guess we all have a little vaunting itch for immortality, I guess that must be it.