“Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.”

“Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.”

“A little thing is a little thing, but faithfulness in little things is a great thing.”

“These little things are great to little man.”

“Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests.”

“We learn of great things by little experiences.”

“Those illustrious men, who, like torches, have consumed themselves, in order to enlighten others, have often lived unrewarded, and died unlamented. But the tongues of aftertimes have done them justice in one sense, but injustice in another. They have honoured them with their praise, but they have disgraced them with their pity. They pity them forsooth, because they missed of present praise, and temporal emolument; things great indeed to the little, but little to the great.”

“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”

“Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.”

“If you cannot be great, be willing to serve God in that which is small. If you cannot do great things for Him, cheerfully do little ones. If you cannot be an Aaron to serve at the altar, or a Moses to guide the tribes, consent to be "a little maid" to Naaman the Syrian, for the honor of God's prophets, or a little child, for Christ's sake, to be set by Him in the midst of the people, as an illustration of the sweetness of humility.”