“Where commerce and capitalism are invloved, often times, morality and honor sink to the bottom-Oliver Goldsmith paraphrased”

“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”

“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey/Where wealth accumulates and men decay”

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”

“I have known many of those pretended champions for liberty in my time, yet do I not remember one that was not in his heart and in his family a tyrant.”

“The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.”