Who said “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”?

“Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.”

“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”

“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.”

“Little things affect little minds.”

“In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.”

“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.”

“Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.”

“There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people...”

“I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.”