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

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.

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

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart.""More than him has done that, " said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.

No matter what you do each day...or in life...doing things God's way is a matter of the heart.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.

Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty.

It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.

Every child can learn, and we mean it... excuses are not good enough, we need results.

Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.

The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.