History is a novel whose author is the people. - Alfred de Vigny

Not one little fellow need fear that he will be forbidden to pluck his shining grape from the cluster of political Power, that fruit reputed to be so full of wealth and glory. Can’t every gang become a club? and every club an assembly? an assembly, a convention? a convention, a senate? and isn’t a senate meant to rule? And what senate ever ruled without a man to rule it? And what did it all require? – Daring! – Aha! Well said! – What! is that all it takes? – Yes, all! The ones who have arrived say so. – Then courage, numskulls, give tongue and run for it! – That’s how it’s done

La vie est trop courte pour que nous en perdions une part précieuse à nous contrefaire.

In England the theatre has never been anything but a fashion for the upper classes or a debauch for the common people.