For me - I hold no commerce with despair! [ Dawes ]
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility. [ Lord J. Manners ]
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations. [ T. Gray ]
Arts, commerce, and good government flourish together. [ T. G. Bergen ]
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals. [ Goldsmith ]
The usual trade and commerce, is cheating all round by consent. [ Proverb ]
The first want of any maritime tribe, or people, is commerce by navigation. [ Olive R. Seward ]
Commerce is a game of skill, which every one cannot play, which few men can play well. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests. [ James A. Garfield ]
To check the starts and sallies of the soul, and break off all its commerce with the tongue. [ Addison ]
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore and called it gold. [ Shelley ]
When a man is in indigence, picking herbs is his philosophy; the enjoyment of his wife his only commerce, and vassalage his food. [ Hitopadesa ]
The most lucrative commerce has ever been that of hope, pleasure, and happiness: it is the commerce of authors, women, priests, and kings. [ Mme. Roland ]
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, contingent, transitory, almost as liable to change as the winds and waves that waft it to our shores. [ Colton ]
Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled. [ Johnson ]
Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country, every wave rolls it, all give it forth, and all in turn receive it. There is a vast commerce of ideas, there are marts and exchanges for intellectual discoveries, and a wonderful fellowship of those individual intelligences which make up the mind and opinion of the age. [ Daniel Webster ]
Facts are to the mind the same thing as food to the body. On the due digestion of facts depends the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigour and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable in the commerce of life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts. [ Burke ]