Men not born to action are inconsequential in government.

she answered, in an absorption with the scene that made him as inconsequential as the rocks around her.

" He must have found, as you would find if you had left youth behind and could see yourself in your own ink, that the first tracery of any controlling factor in your life was faint and inconsequential to you at the time, without presage of its importance until you saw other lines, also faint and inconsequential in their beginnings, drawing in toward it to form a powerful current.