Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.
Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.
In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.
All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.
Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.
Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual