H. L. Mencken

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop."

- H. L. Mencken

"Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull."

- H. L. Mencken

"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant."

- H. L. Mencken

"The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike."

- H. L. Mencken

"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."

- H. L. Mencken

"A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents."

- H. L. Mencken

"Honor is simply the morality of superior men."

- H. L. Mencken