"What restrains us from killing is partly..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in hell.”

“Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.”

“The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.”

“When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.”

“Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.”

“You should not honor men more than truth.”

“Let him smell his way to Dover!”

“An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.”

“A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.”