Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
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Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings.
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Priority is a function of context.
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It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
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In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
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A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
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