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 asse…

- Henry Mayhew

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

- Henry Mayhew

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

- Henry Mayhew

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 t…

- Henry Mayhew

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…

- 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…

- Henry Mayhew

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved

- Henry Mayhew

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

- 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 ni…

- Henry Mayhew