The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.
Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.
No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.