Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.