No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.
H. L. MenckenWhenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.
H. L. MenckenA sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic.
H. L. MenckenIt is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.
H. L. Mencken