No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

N. (1975). From 1881 to 1885 Max — he was always called simply "Max" and it is thus that he signed his drawings — attended the day school of a Mr Wilkinson in Orme Square.

Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (24 August 1872 – 20 May 1956) was an English essayist parodist and caricaturist best known today for his 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson.