The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it
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 MayhewFacts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact
Henry Mayhew