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

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles

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

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

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

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

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