C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Mercantile
Despatch is the soul of business.
That which is everybody’s business, is nobody’s business.
A manufacturing district***sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighborhood.
Traffic’s thy god; and thy god confound thee!
There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers.