“Unconsciously we
all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we
find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we
envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just
that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and
sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves
to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If
everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.”