Let an action be never so trivial in itself, they always make it appear of the utmost importance

From The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope. From the letter of dedication. Emphasis added.

The Machinery, Madam, is a term invented by the Critics, to signify that part which the Deities, Angels, or Dæmons are made to act in a Poem: For the ancient Poets are in one respect like many modern Ladies: let an action be never so trivial in itself, they always make it appear of the utmost importance. These Machines I determined to raise on a very new and odd foundation, the Rosicrucian doctrine of Spirits.

"Let an action be never so trivial in itself, they always make it appear of the utmost importance": what a perfect description of so many sensitivities on university campuses and in political discourse where there are hordes hungry to find offense in the words of others, the discovery of such offense being an affirmation of their own self-perceived importance.

The Rape of the Lock has had significant literary and cultural influence down through the years. A coda to the Wikipedia entry on the poem brings to light one further influence, of which I was unaware, the naming of Uranus's moons.

Pope's fanciful conclusion to his work, translating the stolen lock into the sky, where "'midst the stars [it] inscribes Belinda's name", contributed to the eventual naming of three of the moons of Uranus after characters from The Rape of the Lock: Umbriel, Ariel, and Belinda. The first two are major bodies and were named in 1852 by John Herschel, a year after their discovery. The inner satellite Belinda was not discovered until 1986 and is the only other of the planet's 27 moons taken from Pope's poem rather than Shakespeare's works.