You are forever alone.

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

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.

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

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

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

Modern money is almost altogether credit money.