Quote of the day
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.
Carl Gustav Carus

Born: January 3, 1789
Died: July 28, 1869 (aged 80)
Bio: Carl Gustav Carus was a German physiologist and painter, born in Leipzig, who played various roles during the Romantic era.






