People commit thousands of small suicides every day that go unnoticed

The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed.

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for 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.