It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.