Little Things

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
- Anita Koddick

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the more important.
- Arthur Conan Doyle, 1858 - 1930

The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.
- Blaise Pascal, 1623 - 1662

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
- Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
- Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1694 - 1773