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• The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
  -- H. L. Mencken, Prejudices, First Serie...
• All the postmasters in small towns read all the postcards.
  -- Mencken and Nathan's Second Law of The Average American -- H. L. Mencke...
• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), Prejudices, Third Series", 1922...
• I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism
  ocialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint -- no matter how distasteful to the majority....
• Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable.
  Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be discovered in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator on his own account....
• Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
  -- H. L. Mencken, "Prejudices", Series iii...