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

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

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 t….

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 qua….

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; wh….

Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a n….

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 ….

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

Money is the best rule of commerce..

For every Seaman of Industry and Ingenuity, is not only a Navigator, but a Merchant, and also a Soldier..

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..

Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the….

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

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..