Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

God is making commerce his missionary.

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

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.

Lord, I do not ask that thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

Commerce has made all winds her ministers.

There is no profit without another’s loss.

Trade is a social act.

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

Trade’s proud empire hastes to swift decay.

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

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