Advice to persons about to marry - don't

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

Advice to persons about to marry - don't

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

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

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