No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My รntonia.
H. L. MenckenNine out of ten Americans are actually monarchists at bottom. The fact is proved by their high suseptibility to political claims by president's sons and other relatives, usually nonentities.
H. L. MenckenAlways remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
H. L. MenckenIt was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning , witchcraft and sacerdotalism.
H. L. Mencken