More quotes by H.L. Mencken

"The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable."
"If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl."
"Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing."
"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."