“[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”
Daniel Webster
“It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.”
Alan Watts
“Revolutions are not about trifles, but they spring from trifles”
Aristotle
“Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.”
Franklin Pierce
“Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.”
Thomas Adams
