Careful Words

commerce (n.)

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails,

And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Traveller. Line 91.

They that on glorious ancestors enlarge,

Produce their debt instead of their discharge.

Edward Young (1684-1765): Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 147.

Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,

But leave us still our old nobility.

Lord John Manners (1818-1906): England's Trust. Part iii. Line 227.