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

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

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

The 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

Advice to persons about to marry - don't

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