“Little things comfort us because little things distress us.”

“A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.”

“Man's sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder.”

“Wisdom leads us back to childhood. Except ye become as little children.”

“Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.”

“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.”

“There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature... and the thing which pleases us.”