Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Heroes
Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds. That is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world.
Hawthorne.—American Note-Books, May 7, 1850.