Economy Comfort

Famous quotes containing the words economy and/or comfort:

“The basis of political economy is non-interference. The only safe rule is found in the self-adjusting meter of demand and supply. Do not legislate. Meddle, and you snap the sinews with your sumptuary laws.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared
Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home;”
—Ruth Pitter (b. 1897)