"Self-respect - The secure feeling that no..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.”

“There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli.”

“I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.”

“Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord”

“Since I am convinced that I wrong no one, I am not likely to wrong myself.”

“Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.”

“We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software - that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.”

“Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.”

“People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.”