Amiable Quote by Stephen Leacock

“Too much of anything creates an imbalance in life. This is true even of virtues such as nonviolence. You never know when the winds…

— Amish Tripathi

“...and I sometimes think that the fading out of the individual personality is what one should desire, not the status of a hero—a sort…

— Hilary Mantel

“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to tremendous difficulties.”

— Spurgeon

“Heroes are men who admit to being difficult to live with, who demand extremely high standards in every aspect of their lives, who are…

— Robyn Donald

“Yet I had not been many days shut up with them before I began to be ashamed of my first judgment, when I had…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.

— Peter S. Beagle

“the remembrance of them is grievous unto us; the burden of them is intolerable.”

— Gail Godwin

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

— Tacitus

“Nobody scarce doth any good, yet they all agree in praising those who do. Indeed, it is strange that all men should consent in…

— Henry Fielding

“Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic of the…

— John Williams

“...An ethnically heterogeneous society without a unifying hero is bound to be torn apart by internal strife. Only a man capable of bringing about…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando