Newgate

We shall never forget the mingled feelings of awe and respect with which we used to gaze on the exterior of Newgate in our schoolboy days†[the doors] looking as if they were made for the express purpose of letting people in, and never letting them out again.

—Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam

What ishistory, in fact, but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man?

—Irving,Washington