...we steal with our eyes closed to the conditions in which the poor, who make our affluence possible, live. We covet what our neighbours have and want more of the same.

Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.

The game isn't over until it's over.

Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.

A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

I loved a lass, a fair one,As fair as e'er was seen;She was indeed a rare one,Another Sheba queen:But, fool as then I was,I thought she loved me too:But now, alas! she's left me,Falero, lero, loo!

Good positions don't win games, good moves do

We need to face the fact that we need more money in order to deliver Jeremy Hunt's absolutely correct drive to guarantee even better standards of care.

I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that.

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.