Nothing is so great and clear a proof of unfitness for greater and nobler actions, than a mind which is seriously occupied with trifles.
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.
A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.
To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
