倘若我们能敏锐地洞察并感知平凡人生的全部，那将如同听见青草生长与松鼠心跳，而沉默背后的轰鸣会让我们窒息而亡。

世界的进步，部分依赖于那些未被历史记载的行为；你我如今的处境还不至于太糟，有一半要归功于那些默默无闻、忠诚生活，并长眠于无人祭扫的坟墓中的人们。

只有狭隘的头脑，才无法从多角度看待问题。

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. ― George Eliot, Middlemarch

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.