The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures

The 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

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles