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: Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet was an English engineer and car designer who, with Charles Rolls and Claude Johnson, founded the Rolls-Royce company.
