A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. – H.L. Mencken
Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. – H.L. Mencken

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. – H.L. Mencken
Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. – H.L. Mencken
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. – H.L. Mencken
Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. – H.L. Mencken
Only roam on, therefore, all fearless, in the many garden of romantic chivalrous poesy, which drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew. – C.O. Müller (Karl Otfried Müller), Introduction to a Scientific System