Art Quote by Thomas Gray

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.

— Thomas Gray

Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She…

— Samuel Johnson

“Commerce does not have to be a ruthless, brutal enterprise that damages people’s lives. It can be a source of happiness, healing, and hope.”

— Brian de Haaff

In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination of the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

— William E. Gladstone

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches it produces…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for…

— William Blake

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other…

— Robert Green Ingersoll