“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on...

“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

Illustration from The Squaring of the Circle by Becky Bolton and Louise Chappel.