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

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

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

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

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

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