31 Quotes by Henry Mayhew

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

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.

Advice to persons about to marry - don't.