What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten it turns into a gnawing worm.

Forgive O Lord my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Fishes live in the sea as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.