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
Henry MayhewThe 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 Mayhew