God is great in what is the greatest and the smallest.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Then to walk in the gallery, and to sit down.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Thence home, and at my business till late at night, then with my wife into the garden and there sang with Mercer, whom I feel myself begin to love too much by handling of her breasts in a’ morning when she dresses me, they being the finest that ever I saw in my life, that is the truth of it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

They parted, in the evening my wife and I to walk in the garden and there scolded a little, I being doubtful that she had received a couple of fine pinners (one of point de Gesne), which I feared she hath from some [one] or other of a present; but, on the contrary, I find she hath bought them for me to pay for them, without my knowledge.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Up, and at the office all the morning, at noon dined at home, and thence took Mrs. Turner out and carried her to the King’s house, and saw “The Indian Emperour;” and after that done, took Knepp out, and to Kensington; and there walked in the garden, and then supped, and mighty merry, there being also in the house Sir Philip Howard, and some company, and had a dear reckoning, but merry, and away, it being quite night, home, and dark, about 9 o’clock or more, and in my coming had the opportunity the first time in my life to be bold with Knepp..., and so left her at home, and so Mrs. Turner and I home to my letters and to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

When I approached the Doctor’s cottage—a pretty old place, on which he seemed to have expended some money, if I might judge from the embellishments and repairs that had the look of being just completed—I saw him walking in the garden at the side, gaiters and all, as if he had never left off walking since the days of my pupilage.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Among those who carried the same style to a distance, may be named Antonio Antoniano of Urbino, who, after aiding Baroccio with his great picture of the Crucifixion, was sent by him with it to Genoa, and there settled.
— from Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 3 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630 by James Dennistoun

Few subjects have, from time immemorial, possessed a wider interest than ghosts, and the superstitions associated with them in this and other countries form an extensive collection in folk-lore literature.
— from Folk-lore of Shakespeare by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

Pansy, was in the group, and the sight of his big, white-clad figure brought her to her feet sharply, with a feeling of choking alarm.
— from A Son of the Sahara by Louise Gerard

Getting up, he walked into the gloom and then stopped with something of a shock.
— from The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" by Harold Bindloss

She was in the grounds at that same hour, and heard the voices as affirmed.
— from Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid

But the perplexity only arises out of the confusion of the human faculties; the art of measuring shows us what is truly great and truly small.
— from Sophist by Plato

Walk in the groves, and thou shalt find The name of Phyllis in the rind Of every straight and smooth-skin tree; Where kissing that, I'll twice kiss thee.
— from The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 by Robert Herrick

They are wise in their generation, and they see well enough that your speculations, as those of a farmer, serve their purpose better than any of their own could possibly do.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 67, Number 414, April, 1850 by Various