There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning.

The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors.

There is a great amity between designing and art.

The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

There is not on earth a spectacle more worthy the regard of a Creator intent on his works, than a brave man superior to his sufferings.