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

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

Park 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

But 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

Facts, 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

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