e man was noble; but with his last attempt he wiped it out; betrayed
his country; and his name remains to the ensuing age
abhorred.--_Shakespeare._

~Trifles.~--A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.--_Shakespeare._

We are not only pleased but turned by a feather. The history of a man is
a calendar of straws. If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, said
Pascal, in his brilliant way, Antony might have kept the
world.--_Willmott._

A drop of water is as powerful as a thunderbolt.--_Huxley._

Riches may enable us to confer favors; but to confer them with propriety
and with grace requires a something that riches cannot give: even
trifles may be so bestowed as to cease to be trifles. The citizens of
Megara offered the freedom of their city to Alexander; such an offer
excited a smile in the countenance of him who had conquered the world;
but he received this tribute of their respect with complacency on being
informed that they had never offered it to any but to Hercules and
himself.--_Colton._

There is a kind of latent omniscience not only in every man but in every
particle.--_Emerson._

It is in those acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are
forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the
devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no
harvest of sweetness--calling their denial knowledge.--_George Eliot._

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us
least.--_Madame Swetchine._

Little things console us, because little things afflict us.--_Pascal._

~Trouble.~--Annoyance is man's leaven; the element of movement, without
which we would grow mouldy.--_Feuchtersleben._

~Truth.~--Veracity is a plant of Paradise, and the seeds have never
flourished beyond the walls.--_George Eliot._

Nothing so beautiful as truth.--_Des Cartes._

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with
beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.--_Charles
Buxton._

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is
the severest correction.--_Thoreau._

Whenever you look at human nature in masses, you find every truth met by
a counter truth, and both equally true.--_Charles Buxton._

Truth need not always be embodied; enough if it hovers around like a
spiritual essence, which gives one peace, and fills the atmosphere with
a solemn sweetness like harmonious music of bells.--_Goethe._

Dare to be true; nothing ca