The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. - Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

The measure of a man's real character is what he will do if he knew he would never be found out.

Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.

It is surely delightful, Sir, to look forward to that period when a series of liberal and prudent measures shall have delivered islands, so highly favoured by the bounty of Providence, from the curse inflicted on them by the frantic rapacity of man. Then the peasant of the Antilles will no longer crawl in listless and trembling dejection round a plantation from whose fruits he must derive no advantage, and a hut whose door yields him no protection; but, when his cheerful and voluntary labour is performed, he will return with the firm step and erect brow of a British citizen from the field which is his freehold to the cottage which is his castle.