Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. ... The aim of medicine is surely not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard them from the consequences of their vices.
H. L. MenckenThe objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
H. L. MenckenFor it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.
H. L. MenckenThe acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to. It is thus, like poetry and religion, a device for gladdening the heart with what is palpably not true.
H. L. MenckenThe curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
H. L. Mencken