Obviously, he didn't. He's an old, dead fool.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-09-121956-01-29), the Sage of Baltimore, American author, critic, newspaper man and iconoclast.
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. Epitaph, Smart Set, 1921-12-03, p. 33