Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. - H. L. Mencken

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

The Sun editorial on Roosevelt this morning begins: "Franklin D. Roosevelt was a great man." ...The argument, in brief, is that all his skullduggeries and imbecilities were wiped out when "he took an inert and profoundly isolationist people and brought them to support a necessary war on a scale never before imagined." In other words, his greatest fraud was his greatest glory, and his sufficient excuse for all his other frauds. It seems to me to be very likely that Roosevelt will take a high place in American popular history -- maybe even alongside Washington and Lincoln... He had every quality that morons esteem in their heros. It will be to the interest of all his heirs and assigns to whoop him up, and they will probably succeed in swamping his critics.

A Puritan is not against bullfighting because of the pain it gives the bull, but because of the pleasure it gives the spectators.