“I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.”

“There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good.”

“But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.”

“The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air — it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.”

“But perhaps there may be a political reason for it: in finding one of a truly benevolent disposition, men may very reasonably suppose they have found a treasure, and be desirous of keeping it, like all other good things, to themselves. Hence they may imagine, that to trumpet forth the praises of such a person, would, in the vulgar phrase, be crying Roast-meat, and calling in partakers of what they intend to appl solely to their own use. If this reason does not satisfy the reader, I know no other means of accounting for the little respect which I have commonly seen paid to a character which really does great honour to human nature, and is productive of the highest good to society.”

“Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.”

“Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.”

“All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.”

“Does the clown ever cry?
Yes, he does. Alone, but!”

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”