Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous.

Money is the best rule of commerce.

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

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.

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.

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

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