It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port
Henry MayhewThe deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
Henry MayhewThe costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.
Henry MayhewThe city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis
Henry MayhewI was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling
Henry MayhewA fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
Henry MayhewPark women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Henry MayhewBut the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system
Henry MayhewFacts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact
Henry Mayhew