"I am always deeply interested in the subject of public executions, and think that the great number of persons whom they attract, derive a salutary horror and warning from the spectacle."

"I believe that the present system of prison discipline is a failure."

"I am a gentleman. I have been a gentleman all my life."

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene l…"

"Every man has some good in him, and every man has some bad in him."