That handful of wit!
Ah, ... it is a most pathetical nit! [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV. Sc.1 ]

You may know by a handful the whole sack. [ Proverb ]

An handful of trade is an handful of gold. [ Proverb ]

A handful of good life is worth a bushel of learning. [ George Herbert ]

Nothing but a handful of dust will fill the eye of man. [ Arab. Proverb ]

A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

All that tread the globe are but a handful to the tribes that slumber in its bosom. [ Bryant ]

Who can look down upon the grave of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb that he should have warred with the poor handful of dust that lies mouldering before him? [ Washington Irving ]

He that hath so many causes of joy, and so great, is very much in love with sorrow and peevishness, who loses all these pleasures, and chooses to sit down on his little handful of thorns. [ Jeremy Taylor ]