Little things are great to little men.

In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Crime generally punishes itself.

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.