Small have continued plodders ever won / Save 25 bare authority from others' books. Love's L. Lost, i. 1.
Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace. Rich. III., ii. 4.
Small is it that thou canst trample the earth with its injuries under thy foot, as old Greek Zeno trained thee: thou canst love the earth while it injures thee, and even because it injures thee; for this a Greater than Zeno was needed, and he too was sent. Carlyle.
Small Latin and less Greek. Ben Jonson of Shakespeare's knowledge.
Small-pot-soon-hot style of eloquence is what our county conventions often exhibit. Emerson.
Small profits and quick returns. Pr. 30
Small rain lays great dust. Pr.
Small service is true service while it lasts. / Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one: / The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, / Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. Wordsworth, to a child.
Small thanks to the man for keeping his hands clean who would not touch the work but with gloves on. Carlyle.
Smallest of mortals, when mounted aloft by circumstances, come to seem great, smallest of phenomena connected with them are treated as important, and must be sedulously scanned, and commented on with loud emphasis. Carlyle.