Little renounciations, endurances, and victories over self make up a strong and noble character. The truly honest man is honest in the minutest details of his life. The noble man is noble in every little thing he says and does. It is a fatal delusion with men to think that life is detached from the momentary thought and act, and not to understand that the passing thought and deed is the foundation and substance of life. When this is fully understood all things are seen as sacred, and every act becomes religious.
Truth is wrapped up in infinitesimal details.
Thoroughness is genius. But, by the storms of circumstance unshaken, And subject neither to eclipse nor wane, Duty exists. You can will to live each fragment nobly if you choose, and, this being done, there can be no particle of baseness in the finished whole. There is no weakness like peevishness. Aspire to the attainment of inward nobility, not outward glory, and begin to attain it where you now are.