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 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

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

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

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved

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