H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy Quotes

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

One cannot enter a State legislature or a prison for felons without becoming, in some measure, a dubious character.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.