Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

One must not trifle with love.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,-'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires since nature hath set none.

One must not trifle with love.

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

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Great events make me quiet and calm it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.