Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.

The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.

Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.

For every Seaman of Industry and Ingenuity, is not only a Navigator, but a Merchant, and also a Soldier.

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.