Disraeli said: ‘Life is too short to be little.’ ‘Those words,’ said André Maurois in This Week magazine, ‘have helped me through many a painful experience: often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget … Here we are on this earth, with only a few more decades to live, and we lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year’s time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worth-while actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. For life is too short to be little.’
