The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it
Henry MayhewThe deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
Henry MayhewI was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling
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