"Here is something that the psychologists have..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.”

“Love begins like a triolet and ends like a college yell.”

“It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous. . . . The great masses of men, even in this inspired republic, are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant, they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge.”

“Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved.”

“Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.”

“Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).”

“In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.”

“On behalf of the American people, just let me say that we are proud to count Greece as one of our closest allies and one of our greatest friends.”

“I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.”