If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?
To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.