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

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

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

Business is other people’s money.

God is making commerce his missionary.

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

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

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

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.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

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

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.

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