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

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.

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

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.

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