The Trade Of Banks Is The Buying

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.

For Every Seaman Of Industry And Ingenuity, Is Not Only A Navigator, But A Merchant, And Also A Soldier.

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.

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.