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