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

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

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

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.