Money Is The Best Rule

I Hope No Man Takes What I Said About The Living And Dieing Of Men For Mathematical Demonstration.

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

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

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.

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.