The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to 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

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

The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

I 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

The 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