Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

It is a thing forever changing, this of Hero-worship: different in each age, difficult to do well in any age. Indeed, the heart of the whole business of the age, one may say, is to do it well.