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: Francis Rous or Rouse was an English politician and a prominent Puritan. He wrote several theological and devotional works and was also Provost of Eton.
