One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet. – Proverb

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. – Robert G. Ingersoll