The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
Category: Sir John Sinclair
Sir John Sinclair, 1st Baronet (10 May 1754 – 21 December 1835) was a Scottish politician, writer on finance and agriculture and the first person to use the word statistics in the English language, in his vast, pioneering work, Statistical Account of Scotland, in 21 volumes.