May 4

“The existence of very insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. It can be shown to affect the price of bread and the rate of wages, to call forth many evil tempers from the selfish, and many heroisms from the sympathetic, and in other ways, to play no small part in the tragedy of life.”

GEORGE ELIOT [pen-name of Mary Ann Evans]

“Wisdom will never let us stand with any man or men on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come! But whence? And when? To-morrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.”

EMERSON

“One of her chief characteristics was her habit of always seeing the best in people, and more than that, of drawing forth whatever was best in them. Under her influence people seemed to become what she expected them to be. She eminently believed in goodness, and always created it by her faith.”

From Life of Annie Keary