Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done.

-Arnold, Matthew
  'Empedocles on Etna', act1, sc.2, l.397^400.

The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all.

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  More Beasts for Worse Children,'The Microbe'.

And, behold, the L passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the L; but the L was not in the wind: and after thewind anearthquake; butthe L wasnot inthe earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the L was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDORDORD1 Kings19:11^12.

He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'The Rime of the  Ancient Mariner', pt.7.

If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse.But the scale doesn't matter.

-Donoghue, Denis
  We Irish.

Here lies, bowl'd out by Death's unerring ball, A cricketer renowned, by name John Small; But though his name was small, yet great was his fame, For nobly did he play the'noble game'. His life was like his inningsölong and good; Full ninety summers had Death withstood, At length the ninetieth winter cameöwhen (Fate Not leaving him one solitary mate) This last of Hambledonians, old John Small, Gave up his bat and ballöhis leather, wax and all.

-Egan, Pierce
  Epitaph on cricketer  John Small. Pierce Egan's Book of Sports.

   What brought the kindred spider to that height, Then steered the white moth thither in the night? What but design of darkness to appall?ö If design govern in a thing so small.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  'Design'.

It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into, that countedöand the manwho was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

-Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
  The Voice of the People, bk.2, ch.4.

Small Is Beautiful: a Study of Economics as if People Mattered.

-Schumacher, E(rnst) F(riedrich)
  Title of book.

Ihaveno doubtthat it ispossibletogiveanewdirectionto technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.

-Schumacher, E(rnst) F(riedrich)
  Small Is Beautiful.

Manya small thing has beenmade large by theright kind of advertising.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  A ConnecticutYankee in King Arthur's Court, ch.22.

Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retir'd; Bid her come forth, Suffer her self to be desir'd, And not blush to be admir'd.

-Waller, Edmund
  'Go, lovely rose'.