Henry Mayhew Quotes & Sayings

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

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Advice to persons about to marry - don't.”

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