We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
Alger.
It is much easier to be critical than correct.
Beaconsfield.
"'I am busy, Johnnie, and can't help it,' said the father, writing away when the little fellow hurt his finger. 'Yes, you could—you might have said oh!' sobbed Johnnie. There's a Johnnie in tears inside all of us upon occasions."
Rev. W. C. Gannett.