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

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

American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

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.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.