The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.

Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.

Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature.

It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.

Two dry Sticks will burn a green One.

If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.