The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

You are forever alone.

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.