All finery is a sign of littleness. [ Lavater ]

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles. [ Wendell Phillips ]

We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting. [ Mme. de Lambert ]

The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them. [ Rochefoucauld ]

No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. [ Carlyle ]

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. [ Carlyle ]

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. [ Lavater ]

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else: but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness. [ William Law ]

That which we foolishly call vastness is, rightly considered, not more wonderful, not more impressive, than that which we insolently call littleness; and the infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable, not concealed, but incomprehensible: it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure, unsearchable sea. [ Ruskin ]