• There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

    H. L. Mencken: There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.
    H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.163, Vintage