The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it
Henry MayhewThe costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.
Henry MayhewThere 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
Henry Mayhew