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You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature. Formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, loose, and, almost always, strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be more common than long books; wit than erudition; imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, to stir passions rather than to charm taste.

Each small task of everyday is part of the total harmony of the universe.

The waters wear the stones.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest timber'd oak.

There is no annoyance as great as the annoyance that is made up of many trifling but continuous worries.

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D.. I shall survive as a curiosity.