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

Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations.

Exchange is no robbery.

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

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

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

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

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

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.

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

A shopkeeper will never get the more custom by beating his customers; and what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation.

Yes to a market economy, no to a market society.

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