H. L. Mencken Quote

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.


The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness (ed. 1915)


A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.