FOURTH WEEK
Monday
Story for reproduction:
TRIFLES
A friend of the great artist, Michael Angelo, was once watching the last touches being made to a statue. Some time later he visited the studio again, and the artist was still at work upon the same statue. He exclaimed: “You have done nothing since the last time I was here. The statue was finished then.”
“Not at all,” was Michael Angelo’s reply. “I have softened this feature and brought out that muscle. I have given more expression to the lips and more energy to the eye.”
“Oh,” said the friend, “but these are trifles.”
“It may be so,” said the artist, “but trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.”