trifle quotes

The study of nature is interwoven with the highest mind. You should never trifle with nature.

- (Jean) Louis (Rodolphe) Agassiz
Attributed.

She canoverpower, astonish, afflict, but she cannot win; her majestic presence and commanding features seem to disregard love, as a trifle to which they cannot descend.

- (James Henry) Leigh Hunt
  Of Sarah Siddons. Critical Essays on the Performers of the London Theatres.