Henry Louis Mencken quotes:

It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents

Criticism is prejudice made plausible

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently - one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gent

When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

Adultery is the application of democracy to love