I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king's business.

Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.

Another good thing that philosophy offers us is the invigorating company of the great dead of the past, while ? at the same time ? it keeps us away from the soulless and trifling affairs of the alive ones.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time which is passing with strength which is only too limited.

A weak mind is like a microscope which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.