Is littleness; he who feels contempt
For any living thing hath faculties
Which he has never used.
—Wordsworth.
Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.
—Henry D. Thoreau.
Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talent and accomplishments.
—Kelty.
I believe that the mind can be profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.
—Henry D. Thoreau.