H. L. Mencken

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Actually, I'm a Republican.

When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.