The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.