"Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone...." - Quote by H L Mencken

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

“Hamlet has been played by 5,000 actors, no wonder he is crazy.”

“For me to go into politics would be like sending a virgin into a house of ill-repute.”

“The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are notrue demonstrations.”

“Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.”

“Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.”

“We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual, and perhaps cannot be wholly expelled; like the worms which, even in life and health, occupy our bodies. Possibly we may withdraw from it, but never change its nature. I fear that it may enjoy a certain health of its own; that we may be well, yet not pure.”

“Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.”

“Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.”