There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit
Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.
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.
Chess is one long regret.
Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.