Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
Source: In Conversations with Max, by S.N. Behrman.
-- Max Beerbohm, (Aug 24 1872-1956), English essayist, caricaturist, parodist; The Incomparable Max wrote many elegant essays; the novel Zuleika Dobson 1911, and a pictorial volume of caricatures.