The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it
Henry MayhewBut 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 city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis
Henry Mayhew