No creature smarts so little as a fool.
Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.
I as little fear that God will damn a person who has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.
How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
To teach vain Wits that Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own!
There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.
The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own.
There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a little truth might do, spoken in such seasons.
There is no study that is not capable of delighting us after a little application to it.
Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.