Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution.

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.