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

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.

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

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

Embrace your responsibility to dream big.

There is not shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars.

When we understand the mechanism of life then we can cooperate with it and live an abundant life.

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.

Lord knows I had what you could call many fashion Don'ts in my day.

The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness.

The greatest of all miracles is to be alive.

I never wanted to change countries; it's something that is part of me.

You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.