"The most disgusting cad in the world..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“Of all the human qualities, the one I admire the most is competence. A tailor who is really able to cut and fit a coat seems to me an admirable man, and by the same token a university professor who knows little or nothing of the thing he presumes to teach seems to me to be a fraud and a rascal.”

“Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.”

“Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.”

“When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!”

“Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.”

“God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly towards all, benevolently to those who fall within our way, respecting sacredly their rights, bodily and mental, and cherishing especially their freedom of conscience, as we value our own.”

“It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.”