We get a deal o’ useless things about us, only because we’ve got the money to spend.

Wants keep pace with wealth always.

The human working stock is of interest only insofar as it is profitable.

The period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal and free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations and horrors of war.

The sea serves the pirate as well as the trader.

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

Trade’s proud empire hastes to swift decay.

A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.

The money market is to a commercial nation what the heart is to man.

Profit is profit even in Mecca.

Business is other people’s money.

Honest commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

Commerce has made all winds her ministers.