At Newfoundland, it is said, that dried cod performs the office of money, - Jean-Baptiste Say

The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself.

All travellers agree that protestant are both richer and more populous than catholic countries;and the reason is, because the habits of the former are more conducive to production.

Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.