It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.