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

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.

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.

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.

It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort of hay will feed and fatten; what quantity of grain and other commodities the same acre will bear in one, three or seven years; unto what use each soil is proper; all which particulars I call intrinsic value, for there is also another value merely accidental or extrinsic.

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