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.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.