The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition. – Honore de Balzac

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights. – James K. Polk