LETTER XXXIV. 



THE LITTLE CAUSES OF GREAT EVEWTS — THE rHAXINELLA— THE NIGELLA — 

 flNKS. 



I don't know whether you have observed, as I have, the 

 useful power which small things derive from their littleness 

 itself; perhaps you have not on so many occasions been over- 

 come by them as I have. 



Id order to become acquainted with his strength, a man 

 should have to contend with something almost impossible to 

 be conquered. 



Little things do everything and undo everything; they pass 

 across everything and over everything ; no one is on his guard 

 against them, and they always end by hitting you. 



