A Hero (n.) who serves in the reserve battalions is never applauded though he risks more: life and the good Lord keep such heroes, like the married man with the sword of duty over his head every day.
A Hero (n.) carries, deeply hidden, a sorrow he cannot and would not impart to anyone.
A Hero (n.) is, à la Scribe, the swain who keeps his word to a girl with only 20,000 francs and gets the girl and the francs — as comic as a tailor's child christened Caesar Alexander Bonaparte Appleclump.
A Hero (n.) is a matter not of what one does but how: one man conquers kingdoms without being a hero, another is one by ruling his own spirit; one shows courage doing the extraordinary, another doing the ordinary.
A Hero (n.) who at the decisive instant is absorbed by the common twaddle that he has several daughters and something extraordinary might happen is not a hero but a hospital-case.
A Hero (n.) who acts outwardly finds the last word mere chatter that weakens the deed; for a hero of spirit it is required — he ought to have and keep the last word.
The Hero (n.) this age awaits will not come; sooner comes one who in godly weakness teaches obedience by being put to death.