When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose,...#Mediocrity
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What...#Mediocrity
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.#Genius, #Greatness, #Mediocrity
Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the...#Mediocrity, #Poets, #Writers
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy....#Being Cheated On, #Mediocrity