"I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miser…"

"This is a gimcrack That can get nothing but new fashions on you."

"These little things are great to little man."

"At every trifle scorn to take offence; That always shows great pride or little sense."

"What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things."

"And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak."

"Trifles, light as air."

"Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles, And waste the time, which looks for other revels."

"Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year."

"Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, And eagerly pursues imaginary joys."