And the renown of such heroes, by outliving themselves, descends as a heritage to their subordinate survivors.

One large brain and one large heart have virtue sufficient to magnetise a whole fleet or an army.

And if all the men who, since the beginning of the world, have mainly contributed to the warlike successes or reverses of nations, were now mustered together, we should be amazed to behold but a handful of heroes.

For there is no heroism in merely running in and out a gun at a port-hole, enveloped in smoke or vapour, or in firing off muskets in platoons at the word of command.

This kind of merely manual valour is often born of trepidation at the heart.