An Essay Upon Projects

for by the easiness of terms on which the merchant may have money, he is encouraged to venture further in trade than otherwise he would do.

for certainly self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

Death is the universal deliverer, and therefore some who want courage to bear what they see before them, hang themselves for fear; for certainly self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

but when by the errors of a man’s youth he has reduced himself to such a degree of distress as to be absolutely without three things—money, friends, and health—he dies in a ditch, or in some worse place, a hospital.

This and travel make a true-bred merchant the most intelligent man in the world,

Books are useful only to such whose genius are suitable to the subject of them;