May 14

“It is the small things of the world that colour the lives of those around us, and it is on persistent effort to reform them that progress depends; and we may rest assured that they who see with greater eyes than ours have a due estimate of the service, and that if we did but perceive the mighty principles underlying these tiny things, we should rather feel awed that we are entrusted with them at all, than scornful and impatient that they are no larger.”

OCTAVIA HILL

“Therefore, though few may praise, or help, or heed us,
Let us work on with head, or heart, or hand.
For that we know the future ages need us;
And we must help our time to take its stand.

“Each single struggle hath its far vibration,
Working results that work results again;
Failure and death are no annihilation,
Our tears exhaled will make some future rain.”

R. A. VAUGHAN