31 Quotes by Henry Mayhew

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings

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

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

In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity.

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it

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

Advice to persons about to marry - don't

We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course.

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.