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
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 MayhewThe essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it
Henry MayhewIt 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
Henry Mayhew