More quotes by H.L. Mencken

"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."
"Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull."
"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."
"In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms."