Ne’ piccioli suggetti è gran fatica,
Ma qualunque gli esprime ornati, e chiari,
Non picciol frutto del su’ ingegno coglie.

Translation: Great toil is oft by trifling theme entailed, But whoso clearly sets it forth and well, No trifling fruit he from his skill doth cull. | Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 365.