"Culture itself is neither education nor law-making:..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.”

“There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.”

“The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of them, it must be manifest, are of dubious wisdom and even more dubious honesty. Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle...”

“The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.”

“It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the ligitimate goals of his life.”

“If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.”

“The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”

“Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.”

“If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.”