Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

Money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber.

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.

Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left with the unique role of buying.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with the necessities.

God is making commerce his missionary.

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal, than this race for profit.

Commerce has made all winds her ministers.

One man’s loss is another man’s profit.

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

You must not grow used to making money out of everything. One sees more people ruined than one has seen preserved by shameful gains.

We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.

Wherever commerce prevails there will be an inequality of wealth, and wherever the latter does a simplicity of manners must decline.