The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.
H. L. MenckenMan's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.
H. L. MenckenNew York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.
H. L. Mencken