In the elder days of Art
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part,
For the gods see everywhere.
—Longfellow.
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear,
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles, life.
—Young.
The smallest hair throws its shadow. —Goethe.
He that despiseth small things shall fall little by little. —Ecclesiastes.
It is the little rift within the lute,
That by and by will make the music mute,
And ever widening slowly silence all.
—Tennyson.
"A pebble in the streamlet scant
Has turned the course of many a river:
A dewdrop on the baby plant
Has warped the giant oak forever."
It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life. —Smiles.
"Only!—But then the onlys
Make up the mighty all."
"My rule of conduct has been that whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well," said Nicolas Poussin, the great French painter. When asked the reason why he had become so eminent in a land of famous artists he replied, "Because I have neglected nothing."
"Do little things now," says a Persian proverb; "so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done." God will take care of the great things if we do not neglect the little ones.