Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles. [ Leigh Hunt ]

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

Time magnifies everything after death; a man's fame is increased as it passes from mouth to mouth after his burial. [ Propertius ]

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun; the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying influence from the want of a body. [ Colton ]

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scale the fall of an empire and the dropping of a woman's glove; and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire. [ Balzac ]