Money Is The Best Rule Of Commerce.

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.

No Man Pays Double Or Twice For The Same Thing, Forasmuch As Nothing Can Be Spent But Once.

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

The Method I Take To Do This Is Not Yet Very Usual; For Instead Of Using Only Comparative And Superlative Words, And Intellectual Arguments, I Have Taken The Course (as A Specimen Of The Political Arithmetic I Have Long Aimed At) To Express Myself In Terms Of Number, Weight, Or Measure; To Use Only Arguments Of Sense, And To Consider Only Such Causes, As Have Visible Foundations In Nature.