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._