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

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

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system

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

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

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

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

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

Facts, 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

Underlying many aspects of water development is a myth: the myth that we must have more.

The heart could only be kept warm by love.

Work becomes worship when you dedicate it to God and perform it with an awareness of his presence.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and feel like going straight back to bed. But I still have to get up and work, and I still have to take advantage of the chances I've been given in life.

I am very aware of the impact that television has on people, in changing perceptions.

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.

Despotism is a long crime.

Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.