Branches Quote by 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…

— Henry Mayhew

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…

— 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…

— Henry Mayhew

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

— Henry Mayhew

Advice to persons about to marry - don't

— 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

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

— Henry Mayhew

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of…

— Henry Mayhew

In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it…

— Henry Mayhew

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a…

— 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…

— Henry Mayhew

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

— Henry Mayhew