A hero is a man who does what he can.

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone; the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.