Every soil does not produce every material.

All money is essentially merchandize.

Every soil does not produce every material.

What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.

Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.

Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs.

All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general use, of a more similar quality, and more easy to be divided into aliquot parts. All is more or less applicable for the purpose of a general pledge of exchange, in proportion as it is less susceptible of decay or alteration in quantity or quality.