Our particular circle needs us, as we need those who compose it, we are all important, but few, indeed, are there, whose power, influence and importance reach far.
Most of the men and women of the world are ordinary.

A man may be a king in Wall street, and yet influence but few outside of his own immediate sphere.

Most probably he is unknown to the great mass of mankind.

Adventitious circumstances bring some men and women more prominently before the world than others, but even such fame as this is transient, evanescent, and of little importance.

The devoted love of our own small circle; the reliable friendship of the few; the blind adoration of the pet dog are worth more than all the "fame," the "eclat," the "renown" of the multitude.