'The world is systematized horror, but therefore it is to do the world too much honour to think of it entirely as a system; for its unifying principle is division, and it reconciles by asserting unimpaired the irreconcilability of the general and the particular.'

'The whole is the false.'

'There is no love that is not an echo.'

'The walk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage of the feudal promenade in the nineteenth century.'

What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today.

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

The nation is deeply divided and the two camps seem to be talking past each other. John Kerry won all three debates but President Bush invokes his faith and th…