“Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.”
“We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.”
“You should treat the trivial things in life seriously and the serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality”
“People think that food cheers you up, that a doughnut cures all ills, but this only works for trivial complaints. When real disaster strikes, food chokes you.”
“Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.”
“He treated Root exactly as he treated prime numbers. For him, primes were the base on which all other natural numbers relied; and children were the foundation of everything worthwhile in the adult world”