Boswell James 1740-1795
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
A page of my Journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

Compton-Burnett Dame Ivy 1884-1969
A Family and a Fortune
People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.

Dyer Sir Edward 1545-1607
‘In praise of a contented mind'
Some have too much, yet still do crave;
I little have, and seek no more.
They are but poor, though much they have,
And I am rich with little store.
They poor, I rich; they beg, I give;
They lack, I leave ; they pine, I live.

Eliot T.S. 1888-1965
Selected Essays
We know too much and are convinced of too little.

Gibson Wilfrid 1878-1962
‘Lament'
But we, how shall we turn to little things
And listen to the birds and winds and streams
Made holy by their dreams,
Nor feel the heart-break in the heart of things?

Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774
‘Edwin and Angelina, or the Hermit'
Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.
Lloyd Marie 1870-1922
A little of what you fancy does you good.

Macaulay Baron (Thomas Babington) 1800-1859
Essay ... „Horace Walpole"
The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.

MARRYAT Captain Frederick 1792-1848
Mr Midshipman Easy (of an illegitimate baby)
If you please, ma'am, it was a very little one.

Mill John Stuart 1806-1873
On Liberty
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

Rhodes Cecil 1853-1902
(on the day of his death)
So little done, so much to do.

Skelton John c.1460-1529
The Bouge of Court
The sovereign'st thing that any man may have
Is little to say, and much to hear and see.

The TALMUD
Three things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast, salt and hesitation.

Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892
In Memoriam A.H.H.
So many worlds, so much to do,
So little done, such things to be.

Young Edward 1683-1765
Night Thoughts ‘Night 4'
Man wants but little, nor that little long.