"Nine times out of ten, in the..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.”

“He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.”

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

“The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.”

“If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.”

“It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.”

“To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.”

“Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.”

“What are man's truths ultimately?Merely his irrefutable errors.”