In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues

Revolutions are not about trifles, but they spring from trifles

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Trifles make perfection--and perfection is no trifle.

There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.