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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.

He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

There is only one terminal dignity - love.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.