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

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

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

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

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