Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.

You are forever alone.

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

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

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.

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.