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.
Bio: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, was an English poet, translator and dramatist. Precocious and studious, she was known from a young age for her learning and knowledge of languages.
