Unmoved though witlings sneer and rivals rail; Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
c.1737  Irene, prologue (first produced1749).

Down for a new radio, to Ross Lake, and back up. Three days walking. Strange how unmoved this place leaves one; neither articulate or worshipful; rather the pressing need to look within and adjust the mechanism of perception.

-Snyder, Gary Sherman
  Earth House Hold,'Lookout's Journal, Crater Shan 28 July'.