What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin. – Honore de Balzac

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. – Amos Bronson Alcott