For economist the real world is often a special case. – Edgar R. Fiedler

Everyone is always in favor of general economy and particular expenditure. – Sir Anthony Eden

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order? – John W. Foster

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. – Charles Caleb Colton