If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping.
Ada Teixeira
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau, 'Walden', 1854
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.
