"Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say,—a hero."

"People would be amazed at the behind-the-scenes activity in hero-making; quarrels over which cases are most deserving…"

"There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always…"

"You see all these white heroes, everybody is white, all the literature classes—your Shakespeare, your poetry — everyb…"

"'Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our father's graves."

"Bob Forestier had pretended for so many years to be a gentleman that in the end, forgetting that it was all a fake, h…"

"Another definition of a hero is someone who is concerned about other people's well-being, and will go out of his or h…"

"Crowds speak in heroes."

"If everyone in your class has heroes and they can relate to them in textbooks and literature, and then you don't see …"

"Tel a esté miraculeux au monde, auquel sa femme et son valet n'ont rien veu seulement de remarquable; peu d'hommes on…"