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

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

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

An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.

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

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.

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