"After all, why be good? How many..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.”

“Change is not progress.”

“School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.”

“The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.”

“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.”

“A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.”

“In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.”

“Nothing is evil which is according to nature.”

“Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil, and it is in the nature of things that he cannot really improve himself without in some degree improving other men.”