I have done most of my talking by post of late years--as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

You're something between a dream and a miracle.

Light tomorrow with today!

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Silence is the best response to a fool.

I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.

Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want.

If we would spend as much time with the world as we spend going to church, the church would grow.

I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.

The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.

Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.

There's no limit to God's love.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Investing in a market where people believe in efficiency is like playing bridge with someone who has been told it doesn't do any good to look at the cards.

A single year's performance is of minor importance and, good or bad, should never be taken seriously.

If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.