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From H.L. Mencken: The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition, edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers and published by The Library of America.

As H.L. Mencken wrote, “There is little in New York that does not spring from money.”

He thought that H.L. Hunt and some of the big companies there had been involved.

H.L. Mencken, admittedly a fast man with a hyperbolic comparison, thought him more profound than Henry James.

H.L. Mencken famously defined puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”