The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
Source: In A Cynic's Breviary, by J. R. Solly, 1925.
-- Nicolas Chamfort, ( 1741-1794), French journalist, playwright, aphorist; He was a brilliant conversationalist and man of letters; noted for one-act comedy La Jeune Indienne, 1764.