. . . . [P]ersons who love very much, easily take offense at trifles. No doubt your excessive affection for me makes you a little diffident about mine. But there is no harm done; I hope you will soon be over this slight jealousy and be convinced that nothing can change the genuine affection Our Lord has given me for you
They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.
The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or "caves in.
Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
Cracks make caves collapse.
Small minds are captivated by trifles.
All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.
Do not think dishonestly. . . Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything. Perceive those things which cannot be seen. Pay attention even to trifles. Do nothing which is of no use.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
