To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Max BeerbohmOnly mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
Max BeerbohmThere is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.
Max Beerbohm