The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. - H. L. Mencken

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

No woman is really humble; she is merely politic. No woman, with a free choice before her, chooses self-immolation; the most she genuinely desires in that direction is a spectacular martyrdom. No woman delights in poverty. No woman yields when she can prevail. No woman is honestly meek.

If the work of the average man required half the mental agility and readiness of resource of the work of the average prostitute, the average man would be constantly on the verge of starvation.