I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.
H. L. MenckenPsychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.
H. L. MenckenLiberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.
H. L. MenckenMan's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.
H. L. Mencken