Here is tragedy - and here is America. For the curse of the country, as well of all democracies, is precisely the fact that it treats its best men as enemies. The aim of our society, if it may be said to have an aim, is to iron them out. The ideal American, in the public sense, is a respectable vacuum.
H. L. MenckenIt is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age of thirty.
H. L. MenckenWhat is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.
H. L. MenckenMan, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his imagination to be anything above a cavalryman, a theologian or a corporation director.
H. L. Mencken