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

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

Advice to persons about to marry - don't

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

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