“There is much to be learned from the little kids and from the little animals! Little things teach us big things! Small candles too challenge the huge darknesses!”

“Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.”

“It's the little things that find us out, the little things we refuse to do in order to avoid doing the big things that can save us.”

“History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.”

“The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.”

“It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.”