Importance of Little Things.
By Jane Taylor
In the management of the temper, on which our own comfort as well as that of all around us so much depends, nothing effective will be done but by a watchful attention to little things. The temper is oftener ruffled by slight provocations than by great and serious injuries. It is in small things that brotherly kindness and charity chiefly consist. Little attentions; trifling, but perpetual acts of self-denial; a minute consultation of the wants and wishes, tastes and tempers of others; an almost imperceptible delicacy in avoiding what will give pain: these are the small things that diffuse peace and love wherever they are exercised, and which outweigh a thousand acts of showy heroism.—Jane Taylor.