Petty Quotes

A man does not have himself killed for a half pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify the man.

I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I been happier every year since I became a man. But this interlude of school makes a somber grey patch upon the chart of my journey. It was a unending spell of worries that did not then seem petty, and of toil uncheered by fruition; a time of discomfort, restriction and purposeless monotony.