What They Said

“Contentment, as it relates to this subject, is a cheerful satisfaction in the place and calling wherein God hath set us.”

Richard Steele
Speaking on ones trade

(From: The Religious Tradesman)

“Justice obliges the tradesman to make conscientious bargains;  that he neither sells too dear, nor buys too cheap;  but does by others as he would be dealt by himself.”

Richard Steele

(From: The Religious Tradesman)

“Diligence, as it relates to trade, is an habitual employment of our bodily and mental powers about our proper calling, in a just and happy medium between idleness, supineness, and trifling curiosity on the one hand, and slavish drudging and immodertate care on the other.”

Richard Steele

(From: The Religious Tradesman)

“The first thing necessary for a happy progress in business, is prudence or discretion.  This, as it relates to trade, is a habit of mind enabling us to conduct our affairs in the wisest and best manner; or, in other words, it is pursuing the proper end, by the best means, and in the fittest time.”

Richard Steele

(From: The Religious Tradesman)