Little strokes fell great oaks.

A small leak will sink a great ship.

For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horse-shoe nail.

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.

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.