William Hone

“My offence is a publication, which is not an offence.”

“I am not come here to be tried by the prayer book, or the creed, or the thirty-nine articles. I am come here to be tried by the law of the land.”

“He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.”

“I may be a bookseller, but I am not a slave.”

“A good lather is half the shave.”