"The more I think you over, the..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“Happiness, like health, is probably also only a passing accident. For a moment or two the organism is irritated so little that it is not conscious of it; for the duration of that moment it is happy. Thus a hog is always happier than a man, and a bacillus is happier than a hog”

“The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties”

“Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.”

“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”

“Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.”

“Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.”

“The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.”

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.”

“Watch your habits, they determine your character.”