Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.
H. L. MenckenCulture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.
H. L. MenckenPublic opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and colored and put into cans.
H. L. Mencken