“Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.”
“Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”
“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”
“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.”
“What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.”
“The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.”