A steady salary is an invitation to mediocrity.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters