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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 metropolis

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

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

My drawings are the result of my sculpture.

People will speculate about what they want, but that is not my intention.

God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

Los Angeles makes the rest of California seem authentic.

The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you'll find you can. Act as if you like a person and you'll find a friendship.

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.