• We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

    Samuel Johnson: We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
    Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 6 Apr. 1781)