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

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

In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.

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.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

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