One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. — H. L. Mencken

A good politician…is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar or a virtuous harlot. For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong. A Mencken Chrestomathy If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion. ♥ 1

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one. Voltaire Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? Abraham Lincoln The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. Aristóteles Hell is other people. Huis Clos (1944) sc. 5; see Eliot 127:27 Jean-Paul Sartre