Under Democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.
—H.L. Mencken

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
–H.L. Mencken

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
–H.L. Mencken