Newgate quotes

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.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^7  Sketches by Boz,'Criminal Courts'.

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?

-Washington Irving
  A History of NewYork, bk.4, ch.1.