Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Here's the rule for bargains: ''Do other men, for they would do you.'' That's the true business precept.

A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.