"Not one job in Britain is at risk because of losing our EU membership, not one, because there would be a free trade a…"

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"

"Lamb had written to Coleridge about one of their old masters, who had been a severe disciplinarian, intimating that h…"

"Dined at Gooden’s, where I met among others , the Secretary of the . He surprised me by saying that he knew Goethe on…"

"Lamb was the first English writer of eminence whom Crabb Robinson tried to convince of the excellence of Goethe."

"There is nothing to be said except about the sheer waste and futility of it all. It is the war all over again, when o…"

"Nothing matters, and everything matters."

"Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to be or remain a civilized man."

"The more complicated the life of a community or the more "advanced" the civilization, the more complicated, incessant…"

"The barbarian is...not only at our gates; he is always within the walls of our civilization, inside our minds and our…"