"The older I get the more I..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.”

“What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.”

“I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.”

“I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.”

“In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.”

“Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble.”

“Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness.”

“From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.”

“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”